So you don’t have your Seattle Gay Film Festival Pass yet?
Here is what you’ll be missing this weekend:
Friday, October 17
7:30pm: Were The World Mine @ Cinerama Theatre
Festival’s Opening Night Film Include Gala Party: $30
9:00pm: Enchanted Opening Night Gala @ Sodo Park
Kick-off the film festival with a magical Gala at the unique and historic Sodo Park. Enjoy delicious fare, a variety of refreshing beverages, and the tunes of DJ Freddy King of Pants. Ample parking is available or leave your car at Cinerama and hop on the big yellow bus, which will provide round trips from Cinerama to Sodo Park – 3200 1st Avenue South.
Saturday, October 18
12:00pm: Clandestinos @ Cinerama Theatre (Subtitled)
In this gritty Spanish tale, the search for acceptance drives a group of young men in pursuit of very different dreams after they escape from a youth reformatory and head to Madrid.
12:00pm: Affinity @ Harvard Exit Theatre
Delve into a darker side of the Victorian era where two women are drawn together, vowing to save each other. But as Margaret and Selina’s stories intertwine, their own tangled mysteries offer shocking revelations.
2:15pm: Boys Shorts @ Cinerama Theatre
Featuring ten gay short films including Babysitting Andy, The Pull, Hirsute, Fagette, Feedback, My Last Ten Hours With You, Souljah, Exeter, The Window, Sweet and Salty.
2:15pm: Testimony @ Harvard Exit Theatre
What does it take to be both religious and queer? A documentary featuring numerous queer folks offering their views on faith in an age of vocal religious intolerance.
Post-screening reception at Rosebud Restaurant and Bar.
4:30pm: Girls Shorts @ Cinerama Theatre
Featuring nine lesbian short films including Operated By Invisible Hands, Lezbros, Happy Birthday, Butch/Femme, Loving Loretta, Rock the Like (Team Gina), No Bikini, I Heart Veronica Martin, 
Menopausal Gals Gone Wild
4:30pm: Pageant @ Harvard Exit
Follows a handful of contestants passionately vying for the ultimate title and who all share the same dream: to be crowned as the one and only Miss Gay America.
7:00pm: Mulligans @ Cinerama Theatre
Chase is visiting his best friend Tyler’s family and the vacation begins typically, but as the season progresses, Tyler and Chase drift apart. Chase catches the attention of Tyler’s hunky dad, Nathan, a dutiful if distant husband and father with secrets.
7:00pm: Laughing Matters…Next Gen @ Harvard Exit Theatre
Documentary featuring an outstanding cast of up-and-coming comics on the LGBT comedy circuit capturing not only their outrageous on-stage performances but also their wild and witty personas off-stage.
9:30pm: Noah’s Arc: Jumping The Broom @ Cinerama Theatre
Picking up where Logo’s landmark African-American ensemble television series left off in a sassy, sexy, funny, and fierce look at the lives of a close-knit quartet of gay men who discovered love, friendship, and their real family when they found each other.
9:30pm: To Each Her Own @ Harvard Exit Theatre
Casey can’t seem to find Miss Right…until she‘s caught off-guard by Jess, who married too soon and too young. When the two young women find themselves falling in love, Jess struggles to protect her reputation and understand her confusing feelings.
11:30pm: The Hole @ Cinerama
A video possesses the mysterious power to turn straight men gay. All it takes is one viewing of the tape, which leads to a menacing phone call in the dead of night in this humorous soft-core spoof of Hideo Nakata’s The Ring.
Sunday, October 19th
12:00pm: Gay City TV @ Cinerama Theatre (Free)
Free program of two short films that examine the subject of “gay community” and also look at addiction issues among queer men.
12:00pm: She’s A Boy I Knew @ Harvard Exit Theatre
Steven comes out as Gwen and decides to transition from male to female. The result is 
an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her family brought to Gwen’s transition.
2:00pm: Ready? Ok! @ Cinerama Theatre
How can Andrea convince her son Joshua that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do? When you wish for a son on the wrestling team, how do you deal with one who loves fashion, dolls and pyramid formations?
2:00pm: Word Is Out @ Harvard Exit Theatre
This 1978 documentary shattered stereotypes of the gay experience for audiences around the world, publicizing positive images of gay Americans for the first time as 26 people, ages 18 to 77, talk articulately about their lives.
2:00pm: Monsters In The Closet @ Central Library (Free)
“Homosexuality and the Horror Film.” This free program explores the role of the “monster queer” throughout film history as they betray straight society’s fears of the outsider, while appealing to queer audiences’ identification with ostracized monsters.
4:30pm: For My Wife… @ Cinerama Theatre (World Premiere)
Charlene was denied access to her dying partner Kate by a social worker—because they weren’t married. The humiliation and discrimination Charlene faced at the hospital and the funeral home, compelled her to testify to the Washington legislature, an act that became influential in passing the state’s historic Domestic Partnership Registration Bill.
Post-screening reception at Design Within Reach – 1918 1st Avenue.
4:30pm: Little Shop Of Horrors Sing Along @ Harvard Exit Theatre
Rick Moranis plays nerdy florist Seymour and Steve Martin is a sadistic dentist as they face a giant Venus flytrap with a taste for rare meat. This is a Sing Along to classic songs such as “Somewhere That’s Green,” “Dentist,” “Feed Me,” and “Mean Green Mutha’ from Outer Space.”
7:00pm: Sex Positive @ Cinerama Theatre
In late 1970s, the sexual revolution was at its peak: gay men lived and loved with wild abandon. Young Richard Berkowitz discovered lucrative work hustling as an S&M top— until he developed AIDS. He transformed himself from sex worker to revolutionary AIDS activist but instead of being lauded he was denounced as being self-hating and sex-negative.
Post-screening reception at Artemis Café & Bar – 757 Bellevue Ave E.
7:00pm: The Secrets @ Harvard Exit Theatre (Subtitled)
The daughter of a prominent rabbi is expected to marry a man for whom she has no attraction. When she befriends a fellow student, their kabbalistic cleansing rituals leads to a growing attraction between the two young women and their desire to be true to themselves, no matter the cost.
9:30pm Boystown @ Cinerama Theatre (Subtitled)
Victor has a dirty little secret: he’s murdering old 
ladies in order to buy their apartments and build a perfect gay neighborhood in Madrid. After a pair of comic book-loving bears inherit the apartment of the latest victim the multi-phobic inspector suspects something more sinister.
9:30pm: The Hunger @ Harvard Exit
Captivating French cinema great Catherine Deneuve and British rock legend David Bowie are two ageless vampires living in a luxurious Manhattan apartment and posing as a Gothic punk couple. This cult classic tale of lust and evil will lure you from the hypnotic bliss of its iconic lesbian love scene to the edge-of-your-seat finale.
Film Festival ticket information is here.
