OPENING NIGHT FILM + PARTY: PONYBOI

Ponyboi

USA | 2024 | 163 min. | Esteban Arango

October 10, 2024

7:00 PM | SIFF Cinema Egyptian

Presented by Seattle Queer Film Festival.

Unfolding over the course of Valentine’s Day in New Jersey, a young intersex sex worker must run from the mob after a drug deal goes sideways, forcing him to confront his past.

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Valentines Day, New Jersey. It’s a busy day of sex work for Ponyboi (River Gallo) when he learns that his estranged father is dying. The troubling news brings back old memories of growing up intersex in a traditional Salvadoran household, and the rift his gender created in his family. Things take a turn for the worse when a drug deal goes wrong, forcing Ponyboi to make a clean break and leave New Jersey to save his neck from the mob and his abusive pimp (Dylan O'Brien). With the help of a mysterious cowboy, Bruce (Murray Bartlett), Ponyboi journeys through the underbelly of New Jersey on a quest for freedom in a gripping 24 hours.

  • Director: Esteban Arango
  • Principal Cast: River Gallo, River Gallo, Dylan O'Brien, Victoria Pedretti, Murray Bartlett
  • Country: USA
  • Year: 2024
  • Running Time: 163 min.
  • Language: English