STUFF 2026: Drawn to Life (Shorts)
In-person tickets
$15 General Admission
$10 Student/Child/Senior
$7 Member
Festival passes
$72 General Admission
$48 Student/Child/Senior
$33 Member
Full Festival Passes and Individual Tickets are available!
Ticketing, concessions, cinemas, restrooms, and our public edit lab are located on Northwest Film Forum’s ground floor, which is wheelchair accessible. All doors in Northwest Film Forum are non-motorized, and may require staff assistance to open. Our upstairs workshop room is not wheelchair accessible.
The majority of seats in our main cinema are 21″ wide from armrest to armrest; some seats are 19″ wide. We are working on creating the option of removable armrests!
We have a limited number of assistive listening devices available for programs hosted in our larger theater, Cinema 1. These devices are maintained by the Technical Director, and can be requested at the ticketing and concessions counter. Also available at the front desk is a Sensory Kit you can borrow, which includes a Communication Card, noise-reducing headphones, and fidget toys.
The Forum does NOT have assistive devices for the visually impaired, and is not (yet) a scent-free venue. Our commitment to increasing access for our audiences is ongoing, and we welcome all public input on the subject!
If you have additional specific questions about accessibility at our venue, please contact our Patron Services Manager at rajah@nwfilmforum.org. Our phone number (206-329-2629) is voicemail-only, but we check it often.
Made possible due to a grant from Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, in partnership with Sensory Access, our Sensory Access document presents a visual and descriptive walk-through of the NWFF space. View it in advance of attending an in-person event at bit.ly/nwffsocialnarrativepdf, in order to prepare yourself for the experience.
NWFF patrons will be required to wear masks that cover both nose and mouth while attending STUFF. Disposable masks are available at the door for those who need them. Recent variants of COVID-19 readily infect and spread between individuals regardless of vaccination status.
Read more about NWFF’s policies regarding cleaning, masks, and capacity limitations here.
About
(85 min TRT)
Frame by frame, this vibrant and hand-crafted program features animated and energetic stories brought to life with care and vision. These films artfully showcase the power of telling a story your own way, exploring transformation and identity in beautiful motion.
Films In This Program:
Ahyoka
(Schon ᎤᎶᎩᎳ Duncan, United States, 13m)
A portrait of Ahyoka Youngdeer, Cherokee culture bearer, teacher, and two-spirit activist. Weaving her own life with a traditional Cherokee story about a crooked-face boy, Ahyoka traces how exclusion was never a Cherokee value and reminds us what it truly means to be a Keetoowah person.
ANADROMOUS
(Ari Grubb, United States, 5m)
When they find themselves evolving out of their aquarium home, two fish set off on a musical journey of self-acceptance and queer joy, and find community in a freaky fish gay bar in the deepest depths of the ocean.
Bright Eye
(Rio Miller, Canada, 21m)
Callie Jones is not your average IT tech. They’re a bio-hacker, living in the cracks of their dystopian society and illegally hacking bionic implants. Careful. Methodical. Invisible… until one wrong phone call exposes them.
CW: Flashing lights
Eve
(Jesse Kogita, United States, 13m)
“Eve” is a short animated film based on the autobiographical stories of transitioning by Eve Palay, a trans woman living in the Pacific Northwest.
Eyeliner
(Aisha Boudjillouli, United Kingdom, 8m)
Nina and her best friend Lily decide to steal an eyeliner, hoping that this will be their key to womanhood. When they’re given wildly different receptions, Nina discovers her journey as a trans girl might not be so easy.
CW: Transphobia
I HAVE BECOME
(Lee J Holoubek, Canada, 1m)
A paint-on-paint + risograph queer experimental animation about a transgender man’s relationship with his body, younger self, and future self to show the grotesque beauty of tearing oneself apart to live truthfully.
CW: Flashing lights
Las Cosas Que Brillan
(Kristal Sotomayor, United States, 11m)
Using a combination of liveaction with handbuilt foamboard sets and puppetry, a curious trans mermaid defies her mother’s warnings to venture up to the surface, only to discover the world above is not what she dreamt.
Promise Me
(Gilda Panizza, Italy, 3m)
“Promise me” is a spell, a call and response where the one who asks and the one who answers blur into each other, using ink to build cyborg bodies the subjects imagine for themselves
SunKissed Sapphics
(Jennifer Marie Cella, United States, 8m)
Three transgender lesbians, all represented as endangered species, happen to meet in a hotel lobby. The trio embark on a passionate and psychedelic odyssey across the south Jersey boardwalk.