From a numbers perspective, it’s a lighter week for LGBTQ films at the 45th Seattle International Film Festival this week but what we have to see offers a terrific variety of queer film including a trio of Spanish language films: sexy Spanish lesbian romance (Carmen y Lola); a moody gay coming out tale from Guatemala (Temblores);  and your last chance to see the sexy, based on a true story Argentinian crime thriller, (El Ángel).

There’s also a couple of documentaries to check out, the femme specific #Female Pleasure which looks at women from five cultures, (Hasidic Jew, Muslim, Shinto Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu) as they battle systematic repression to express female sexual autonomy. And, on the cuter (but no less empowering) side, there’s We Are the Radical Monarchs, a documentary about the founding of an Oakland California based alternative to the Girl Scouts for young women of color.

More below including ticket links but also be aware there’s a whole other week to go for SIFF 2019 after this week and another half dozen films to debut including TROOP ZERO starring Viola Davis and Allison Janney, and HALSTON the eagerly awaited documentary about the legendary fashion designer of the 70s and 80s.

Temblores d. Jayro Bustamante, Guatemala/France/ Luxembourg Earthquakes are the central metaphor in this drama as a just-out gay man faces brutal pressure to conform from his family and from the church in intensely Catholic Guatemala. SHOWTIMES FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 SIFF Cinema Uptown  1:30 PM TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2019 SIFF Cinema Uptown  9:00 PM BUY TICKETS #Female Pleasure d. Barbara Miller, Switzerland Hasidic Jew, Muslim, Shinto Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu: The five repression-battling women profiled in this doc come from different religious backgrounds but find that patriarchal fear of female sexual autonomy is universal. SHOWTIMES FRIDAY, MAY 31, 2019 SIFF Cinema Uptown  6:15 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019 AMC Pacific Place  4:00 PM BUY TICKETS

We Are the Radical Monarchs d. Linda Goldstein Knowlton/USA Follow the founding and growth of the Radical Monarchs, an Oakland-based alternative to the Girl Scouts for young women of color (ages 8-13) at the front lines of social justice and allyship. SHOWTIMES SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 2019 SIFF Cinema Egyptian  11:00 AM Monarch Neveah Kelly scheduled to attend SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2019 AMC Pacific Place  1:30 PM BUY TICKETS El Ángel d. Luis Ortega, Argentina/Spain Alluring, angelic and completely amoral, baby-faced robber Carlos Robledo Puch, aka “Blondie,” quickly moves from breaking and entering to murder, alongside handsome career criminal Ramón, soon becoming Argentina’s most wanted, feared, and infamous outlaw. SHOWTIMES THURSDAY, MAY 30, 2019 SIFF Cinema Egyptian  9:30 PM BUY TICKETS