Travessias Brazilian Film Festival Focuses On Issues Of Race, Gender and Sexuality

The Brazilian film “Bixa Travesty” screens at Travessias Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum on Saturday, May 25th.

Yes, the 45th Seattle International Film Festival is currently going on with tons of LGBTQ films being screened but there are OTHER queer film options in the Seattle area as well going on including the upcoming Travessias Brazilian Film Festival which is a two-day festival of transgressive filmmaking from Brazilian women filmmakers that will screen at Northwest Film Forum on Capitol Hill this Friday and Saturday, May 24th and 25th. 

This mini festival will showcase one shorts program and 3 feature films that places issues of “race, gender and sexuality in Brazil” through an unflinching lens…which means that these films can be “raw and challenging” so they’re recommended for ages 18 and up.

Obviously these films would have been made prior to the election of Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil in elections last October. The far right politician has been called “The Trump of the Tropics” and has made headlines for his homophobic views. But, Brazil has long been a country that, much like the United States, has struggled with dueling personas as both a liberal bastion but also plagued by right wing, oppressive extremism.

Travessias Brazilian Film Festival is being co-presented with UW’s Center for Brazilian Studies and curated by visiting scholar of Brazilian cinema Emanuella Leite Rodrigues de Moraes and under the supervision of the Professor and Director of the Center for Brazilian Studies Jonathan Warren. Seattle’s LGBTQ Latinx group,  Somos Seattle, and BrasilFest are also co-presenters for this unique festival.

Get your pass here!

The schedule for the festival:

The Travessias Film Festival runs Friday and Saturday, May 25 & 25, 2019 at Northwest Film Forum.

Read the festival program at bit.ly/travessias2019!