DEAF/HARD OF HEARING FRIENDLY FILMS
These films are fully subtitled, or include films with no dialogue. (Note: Some of the intros may not be captioned and Q&As, We are working on it)
FORGOTTEN ROADS - THE WAY WE (MOVE)
“The Way We (Move)”: It must be the way we move forward with our hearts, knowing that the drama, arguments, doubts, hand-holding, and kisses of truth are the reasons. These films all show how the heart speaks.
ALICE JÚNIOR - THERE’S NO EMOJI FOR THIS
Our social media presence is our stage, a space where we put our lives on display. We shed light and throw shade and try to keep the trolls at bay. Before the film, enjoy a star-studded panel and performances with QTBIPOC creatives.
WALK MANY WORLDS
This series of short films focus on women making critical decisions or holding firm to the paths they have chosen. With hilarity and sensitivity, fierceness and vulnerability, they serve as witnesses to the most central moments of our lives. Do we meet violence with violence? Do we let “them” win? How do we find paths to a stronger self?
ULTRAVIOLET: EXPERIMENTAL SHORTS
Join us as you are, without inhibition, in dance and poetry, as we transgress the narrative of who, what, when, or how we should be in this world.
BOYS SHORTS
Gay and fab often leads to laughter—okurrr!
CICADA
Matthew Fifer & Kieran Mulcare; 2020; USA; 93 min.
CICADA is a stirring portrait of bisexual Ben (co-director Matthew Fifer in a fearless performance), who jumps from one meaningless and sometimes anonymous sexual encounter to another until he decides to confront his demons.
COCOON (Kokon)
Leonie Krippendorff; 2020; Germany; 95 min.; in German with English subtitles
Nora, a shy 14-year-old girl from Berlin, will never forget this record-hot summer. Like a caterpillar, she emerges from her cocoon to become a confident and strong butterfly, ready to spread her wings and fly into adulthood.
CURED
Bennett Singer & Patrick Sammon; 2020; USA; 82 min.
This powerful new documentary by Bennett Singer (BROTHER OUTSIDER: THE LIFE OF BAYARD RUSTIN) and Patrick Sammon from Seattle illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBT equality: the 1973 David-and-Goliath battle to get the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses.
EQUAL
Stephen Kijak; 2020; USA; 40 min.
The Seattle Queer Film Festival is proud to present this sneak preview of a documentary series (soon airing on HBO Max) on the LGBTQ+ activist pioneers who helped change the course of American history, by director Stephen Kijak (SID & JUDY, SQFF 2019).
UFERFRAUEN
Barbara Wallbraun; 2020; Germany; 115 min.
Six lesbians who created a private world for themselves despite state repression speak out about life behind the Wall in the GDR (former East Germany). Through intimate romances and lives as mothers and workers, these women, from both rural and metropolitan areas, found a way to exist.
THE STRONG ONES (Los Fuertes)
Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo; 2019; Chile; 99 min.; in Spanish with English subtitles
This sensual drama follows Lucas, an artist from Santiago who travels to a small fishing village in southern Chile to visit his sister Catalina. There he meets Antonio, a handsome local who works as a boatswain and performs in historical war reenactments.
TWO OF US (Deux)
Filippo Meneghetti; 2019; France; 95 min.; in French with English subtitles
Nina and Madeleine, both retirees and deeply in love for decades, have woven a beautiful—but secret—life together. They freely move between their two apartments on the top floor, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down.
SURVIVING THE SILENCE
Cindy L. Abel; 2020; USA; 79 min.
Imagine being a highly accomplished officer working at the Pentagon, deeply closeted, and tasked with the job of overseeing the military review board that will dismiss highly decorated Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer for acknowledging that she is a lesbian.
OUR DANCE OF REVOLUTION
Phillip Pike; 2019; USA; 102 min.
This untold history of Toronto’s Black queer community spans four decades of passionate activist rebellion. Refusing to be silenced and raging with love, the trailblazers featured in this documentary demanded a city where all can live their truths free from the threat of violence.
THE GODDESS OF FORTUNE
Ferzan Özpetek; 2019; Italy; 118 min; in Italian with English subtitles
On a beautiful Roman terrace, Arturo and Alessandro, a handsome, fortysomething, long-term gay couple, are celebrating their marriage but clearly in crisis. Suddenly, Alessandro’s best friend and ex-lover Annamaria bursts in, suitcases and children in tow.
TRANSHOOD
Sharon Liese; 2020; USA; 93 min.
Filmed over five years in Kansas City, this compelling chronicle of growing up trans in the heartland follows the emotional and physical development of four transgender kids as they redefine “coming of age.”
AHEAD OF THE CURVE
Jen Rainin; 2020; USA; 95 min.
In this documentary, with the future of Curve uncertain, Stevens and director Jen Rainin explore lesbian visibility, community, legacy, and the need to evolve, through the use of archival footage and interviews with LGBTQ+ leaders, artists, and “celesbians”.
LUZ
Jon Garcia; 2020; USA; 118 min.
Ruben has been sentenced to a minimum-security prison. Shortly after arriving, his cellmate Carlos mentors him in adapting to incarceration. As time passes, they develop a much more intimate connection than expected, but when one of them is released before the other, it calls into question whether what they had was real.
THE WHISTLE
StormMiguel Florez; 2019; USA; 57 min.
Heartwarming, uplifting, and authentic, THE WHISTLE follows the origin story of a peculiar secret code—a high-pitched whistle—shared by lesbian youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico, more than forty years ago as a way to covertly identify themselves in straight society.
Audio descriptive version for viewers with visual impairments available by request: programmer@threedollarbillcinema.org