Sundance Festival Short FIlm Tour 2020 [Online]
An 82-minute theatrical program of 6 short films selected from this year’s Festival. Widely considered the premier American showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for more than 30 years, the Short Film Tour includes fiction, documentary and animation from around the world, giving new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers.
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Queer Cinema from Germany [Online] Series
The series is part of Queer as German Folk, a project that took the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprisings as an occasion to examine the current status of the gender diversity discourse on the basis of the history of the Queer Movement. Structured as an ongoing dialogue, the project picks back up this year with expanded perspectives from Seattle, Houston, and Kansas City.
Learn More Something Strange Film Series - Amulet [Online]
*Co-presented with North Bend Film Festival!* Amulet explores the story of Tomaz, an ex soldier from an unnamed foreign conflict, living in strained circumstances in London. Haunted by his past, he is offered a place to stay in a decaying, claustrophobic house, inhabited by an enigmatic young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for his new companion, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.
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Malaya Movement Seattle Chapter joins NWFF in Co-Presenting “A Thousand Cuts”
FROM MALAYA MOVEMENT:
We are encouraged by Northwest Film Forum’s presentation of Ramona S. Diaz’s A Thousand Cuts. This important documentary spans the important and courageous work of Maria Ressa, a Filipina journalist who has challenged the violent Duterte administration’s ruthless “war on drugs.”
In his fourth year of office, Duterte’s authoritarian rule has eroded the sovereignty and democracy of the Phil…