

This story is part of Crosscut’s 2022 Fall Arts Preview The festival ends on a sweet note with the Canadian coming-of-age film Golden Delicious. Also on view: short movies about queer friendship, a musical comedy and a slew of intriguing national and international documentaries. 13-23) is back as well, opening with the world premiere of WHAT THE FUNK?!, a locally produced documentary about Seattle’s new all-BIPOC burlesque festival. premiere) and the tense psychological drama Carajita, set in the Dominican Republic. 7-15), the main movies bookending the festival are dramas: the Bolivian dramedy Gaspar (in its U.S. While there are a few intriguing documentary options at the Seattle Latino Film Festival (Oct. Other highlights from the documentary film festival include features on the beloved television show Reading Rainbow ( Butterfly in the Sky), an all-female expedition to the North Pole ( Exposure) and the Lakota people's effort to reclaim their land ( Lakota Nation vs. Before its wider release later this fall, the film will screen during the second edition of SIFF DocFest (Oct.


The film, by Oscar-winning director Laura Poitras, is a portrait of artist Nan Goldin and her fight against the Sacklers, the family behind the manufacturer of the opioid Ox圜ontin (and to many, of the opioid crisis itself).

When All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice International Film festival this September, it was only the second time in the festival’s 79-year history that a documentary took home the prestigious prize. If you go: this was a densely wooded hill, Henry Art Gallery, Oct. In their statement, the three artists note that the installation (led by Kahlon in collaboration with Deriana and Tail) will grow with new materials during its exhibition and hope to ask: “What is the shape of mourning? what is the sound of a memory? how do we honor the sharp, tingling sensation of yearning that fills the cavity of our soft bodies when we think of how things could have been?” - MVS Below, an oyster-shell covered floor (delineating the shape of a traditional earth lodge) and maple tree-stump seating offer a moment of grounding. Near the entrance of the Henry Art Gallery currently hangs a living-memory mobile, a loose weaving made from materials collected over the years by local artists Asia Tail, Kimberly Corinne Deriana and Satpreet Kahlon of the yəhaẃ Indigenous Creatives Collective: earrings, rocks, shells, beadwork, tin jingles, copper and mica fragments, styrofoam and shiny bubblewrap packaging.
