June 7, 2018• byMichael Strangeways

That was fast! The 44th annual Seattle International Film Festival is already going into its LAST weekend! Here are highlights of things to check out before it’s all gone!!!

Holy SIFF, This is the Last Weekend?!?

All good things must come to an end. Also incredibly magnificent things, which is what SIFF is. If there is good news here, it’s that we have packed the final weekend with an entire festival’s worth of quality cinema.

If we must finish, we will do so with a bang.

The Last Thursday

Little Tito and the Aliens

Actor Miguel Herrera Scheduled to Attend.*

In this moving family drama, a widowed Italian scientist living isolated within a shipping container in the middle of nowhere Nevada is asked to care for his teenage niece and precocious young nephew, forcing his curmudgeonly heart to find new life.

Thursday, June 7 · 7:00 PM · SIFF Cinema Uptown*
Friday, June 8 · 4:00 PM · SIFF Cinema Egyptian*
Sunday, June 10 · 4:30 PM · Pacific Place

Wild Nights With Emily

Abiopic about famed poet Emily Dickinson and her supposed relationship with her sister-in-law, Susan.

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Thunder Road

A small-town police officer struggling to process the death of his mother, an impending divorce, and his own unrecognized cluelessness.

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Thursday’s Full Lineup

The Final Friday

This One’s For The Ladies

Winner of the Special Jury Award
at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival

When in need of escape, a group of New Jersey women funnel anxiously into a former karate dojo to visit the Nasty Boyz, male exotic dancers who specialize in satisfying desires, illustrating the bonds formed though women
exploring their sexuality.

Friday, June 8 · 9:15 PM · SIFF Cinema Uptown
Saturday, June 9 · 1:30 PM · SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Anchor & Hope

When a lesbian couple decides to start a family they ask an old friend to
donate his sperm.

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Champions

A disgraced basketball coach is given the chance to coach a team of players who are intellectually disabled.

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Everything Friday Has To Offer

Seriously, The Last Saturday

Prayer Before Dawn

Joe Cole (“Peaky Binders”) stars in this true account of an English boxer who enters Muay Thai tournaments while incarcerated in two of Thailand’s
most notorious prisons.

Saturday, June 9 · 9:15 PM · SIFF Cinema Uptown

Return to Mount Kennedy

The sons of Robert F. Kennedy and Jim Whitaker recreate their fathers’ summit of Mount Kennedy fifty years later.

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Chedeng & Apple

Two best friends and their children go on the run after one friend decapitates her abusive husband.

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Saturday’s Delights

There Are No More Sundays After This Sunday

Never Goin’ Back

Taking place over just a few days, two teenage waitresses have hilarious misadventures as they attempt increasingly madcap and wild schemes to try and raise some cash for a trip to Galveston.

Sunday, June 10 · 9:30 PM · Pacific Place

Under the Tree

An absurd black comedy of two families that feud over the placement of a tree
in their neighborhood.

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Wrath of Silence

A mute Chinese miner
sets off to find his missing son using
whatever tactics necessary

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All That’s Showing ON THE FINAL DAY OF SIFF 2018

About the Author: Michael Strangeways

As the Editorial Director/Co-Owner, Michael Strangeways writes, edits and does about a million other jobs for Seattle Gay Scene, Puget Sound's most visited LGBTQ news, arts and entertainment website now celebrating its 14th year as a media outlet. A semi-proud Midwesterner by birth, he's lived in Seattle since 2000. He's also a film producer who would like you to check out the Jinkx Monsoon documentary, "Drag Becomes Him" now available on Amazon.com. In his spare time, he gets slightly obsessive about his love for old movies, challenging theater, "otters", vodka, chocolate, "I,Claudius", Lizzie Borden, real books made out of paper, disaster films, show tunes, Weimar era Germany, flea markets, pop surrealistic art, the sex lives of Hollywood actors both living and dead, kitties, chicken fried steak, haute couture and David Bowie. But, not necessarily in that order.