LGBTQ SIFF 2019: The Final Week

June 4, 2019• byMichael Strangeways

It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN for LGBTQ Films at the 45th annual Seattle International Film Festival as the festival winds its way to closing night on Sunday, June 9th. (Of course, SIFF continues year round with screenings at its own venues at The Uptown and Egyptian Cinemas and at its own screening room at its Seattle Center main office.)

Closing out the queer films this week are dramas from Brazil and comedies from Italy and Austrian psycho dramas and satires from Sweden. Not to mention a locally made documentary about some stripping faux cowboys and a big fancy documentary about legendary fashion desire/Liza’s Best Friend, Halston.

Check out more on these films down below and on the last few LGBTQ screenings at the SIFF website, HERE.

Socrates

d. Alexandre Moratto, Brazil

At-risk Brazilian youth collaborated with director Alexandre Moratto on this no-punches-pulled drama about a homeless, family-less teen struggling to get by in São Paulo’s ghetto.

SHOWTIMES

MONDAY, JUNE 3, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

8:30 PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

4:30 PM

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AnAlmostOrdinarySummer

An Almost Ordinary Summer

d. Simone Godano, Italy

In this positive, feel-good LGBTQ comedy from Italy, two families don’t realize they’re being brought together for a wedding, and especially not one for their respective, aging patriarchs.

SHOWTIMES

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2019

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

6:30 PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

12:00 PM

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Halston

d.Frederic Tcheng, USA

Relive the roller-coaster career of the designer whose innovative clothes not only gave women new freedom, but who fabulously heightened both the role of fashion in American culture and of American fashion on the world stage.

SHOWTIMES

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2019

AMC Pacific Place

4:00 PM

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

5:00 PM

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GroundBeneathFeet Film

The Ground Beneath My Feet

North American Premiere
d. Marie Kreutzer, Austria

In this Austrian psychodrama, a workaholic business consultant, her life already complicated by caring for her paranoid-schizophrenic half-sister (and her affair with her boss), begins to feel her own mental state destabilizing.

SHOWTIMES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019

AMC Pacific Place

9:30 PM

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

3:00 PM

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X&Y

d. Anna Odell, Sweden and Denmark

An artist hires a famous actor, and several performers to play their respective alter egos, to live in a film studio with cameras running in this hard-edged social satire of filmmaking and gender deconstruction that blurs the lines between fiction and reality.

SHOWTIMES

THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

9:15 PM

SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 2019

SIFF Cinema Uptown

2:00 PM

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longhaulBUcks

The Long Haul: The Story of the Buckaroos ☆

World Premiere
d. Amy Enser☆, USA

Seattle’s all-male, country-Western-themed, slightly parodistic burlesque dance troupe uncovers their secrets and bares their souls (and plenty else) in this up-tempo doc.

NOTE: Use Discount Code GAY2019 to save $3 off tickets!!!

SHOWTIMES

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2019

SIFF Cinema Egyptian

7:00 PM Director Amy Enser, many of the cast/crew scheduled to attend

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2019

AMC Pacific Place

11:00 AM Director Amy Enser, many of the cast/crew scheduled to attend

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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.