This year, SIFF's LGBTQ titles include 15 feature films and 1 program of shorts, hailing from every continent but Antartica. Represented across these titles are stories of gay, lesbian, transgender, nonbinary, third gender, and intersex experiences, amongst others.

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SIFF's LGBTQIA Feature Films: Explore all 16 LGBTQIA Titles Here!

The 48th Seattle International Film Festival will present the best in international and independent films from around the globe—with screenings at SIFF theaters and venues throughout the city as well as virtually on the SIFF Channel.

Consider Adding These To Your Watch List:
Mama Bears, Lonesome, Bernstein's Wall, Finlandia, Sublime, Sediments, and Wildhood.

The Film Festival begins on April 14th and ends on April 24th.

Mama Bears follows Sara; Texan Kimberly Shappley and her five-year-old trans daughter Esther; and Tammi Terrell Morris, a recently out lesbian in San Bernardino who has struggled with her relationship with Christianity and her own mother since she was young. This heartfelt documentary explores their journeys to find support and community while re-examining everything they were told to believe about faith and love.

— Emalie Soderback

In this sexually explicit drama, a scandal drives a young gay man from his small Australian town to Sydney, where he seeks affection and fulfillment and meets another scarred, isolated young man similarly exploring his desires.

Perfectly timed after Spielberg’s recent remake of West Side Story, this portrait of its composer Leonard Bernstein, conqueror of both Broadway and the concert hall, captures his genius and his voracious, even self-destructive, appetite for music and for life.

When a Spanish fashion designer arrives in Oaxaca to steal clothing traditions for the European market, she quickly falls in with the colorful two-spirited Muxe community, leading to a powerful reckoning in this emotionally rich, visually stunning tapestry.

Shy teen musician Manu finds himself pining for his lifelong best friend Felipe just as his family life buckles. As he grows increasingly short with loved ones and falls further out of sorts with the world around him, Manu’s quiet truth slowly begins to emerge through songwriting, pushing him into surprising new creative directions and at long last uncovering his long-buried truth in this raw, sensitive debut feature from writer/director Mariano Biasin.

Travel to a mountain village in Spain with six trans women, diverse in age, background, and experience, as they visit the birthplace of one of the group, bare their souls, and bond.

A delicate, queer coming-of-age road movie about a Mi'kmaw teenager who flees his abusive father and treks across maritime Canada in search of his birth mother and his own Indigenous heritage.