In addition to an outstanding film festival, Seattle offers a very cool museum combining two of the obsessions of its founder, local Microsoft billionaire Paul Allen: science fiction and rock and roll. I visited the Experience Music Project/Science Fiction Museum (EMP/SFM) with YH and fellow FIPRESCI juror, stalwart Gideon Kouts of Paris.

It's the elephant in the room when you're talking to Duncan Jones: this guy is Zowie Bowie -- Ziggy Stardust's son! It's uncool to bring it up, but how can you not at least mention it?

Very easily, as it turns out, because the affable, self-proclaimed geek has accomplished enough on his own to make his pedigree a mere footnote.