Local Sightings Film Fest Features Queer Films

Three Dollar Bill isn’t actively producing film festivals right now, but they are partnering and promoting other queer film events at other festivals! They’re helping get the word out on a couple of queer film programs at the 29th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival !

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Our friends at Northwest Film Forum are kicking off the 29th Annual Local Sightings Film Festival this Friday, September 18, and they’ve got a special deal for Three Dollar Bill Cinema supporters.

Use code QueerSightings at checkout to get $12 tickets, regularly $15, to two queer highlights:

• AGAIN AGAIN — a queer sci-fi romance and SIFF fan favorite
• QUEER AS IN — a shorts block celebrating queer stories from around the Pacific Northwest

Local Sightings runs September 18–27 at Northwest Film Forum and spotlights bold, inventive filmmaking from artists across the region.

Grab your tickets, use code QueerSightings, to check out these queer, local, screenings.

Again Again

If you thought sci-fi couldn’t be romantic, Mia Moore is here to prove you wrong. The time loop is an oft-trotted out device in film—but few films have asked, what actually happens after the time loop ends? And perhaps most importantly, what happens to someone who survives the trauma of an impossible experience?

Moore turns the genre trope into an intimate exploration of human psychology, womanhood, transness, and queer love. Aggie (Moore) wakes up one day to discover that she’s finally made it to tomorrow, after 10 years stuck reliving the same day over and over again. And still by her side after all that time is sometimes lover, sometimes friend, Tess (Aria Taylor), whose messy, transformative relationship with Aggie is tenderly brought to life by Moore.

Steeped in its Aberdeen location, AGAIN AGAIN is a distinctly Washingtonian film, with gloomy beaches, record stores, pot smoke, and sapphic tumult galore, alternating between moody black and white and color-soaked neon blues and reds. Moore’s debut feature marks the arrival of a singular new voice in American filmmaking. – Camille Hermida-Fuentes

Friday, September 25, 7:30 PM

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue

Queers As In (Shorts)

Films in this program include:

Fadeaway

After a hookup text leads to the discovery of a deadly overdose, a closeted bisexual man is confronted by memories of his initial connection with the victim.

Lingering

Jane ignores her best friend Ivy, who’s clearly pining for her, so that she can gain the attention and approval of a guy who clearly doesn’t give a shit about her.

Embrace

When a bar bathroom hookup takes an otherworldly turn, two men must work through their problems to move forward.

Arman

Overwhelmed and isolated on his wedding day, a closeted immigrant speaks to his family on the phone moments before walking down the aisle.

Cambio

In this silent tale, Lux is a closeted young man who lives in a conservative household and confines the truth of his sexuality to his sketchbook. When he suddenly manifests the ability to project his fantasies onto screens and reflections, he accidentally outs himself to his parents.

Qualia

Dove, a repressed college student, languishes away her summer until Anya, a mesmerizing party girl crashes into her life and proves just how down bad she really is.

Friday, September 18, 7 PM

Northwest Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue