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Join Frameline for a special free encore screening of Jimmy in Saigon, featuring a Q&amp;A with director Peter McDowell. Jimmy in Saigon follows the director’s investigation into the mysterious death of his brother—a rebellious kid drafted into the Vietnam War, who stayed in Saigon after his tour of duty to enjoy “hedonistic pleasures.”

Jimmy in Saigon (Encore Screening)

Frameline47 is just two months away! Ahead of this queer cinema extravaganza, join us at Divas &amp; Drinks at The Academy to share our excitement (and maybe hear the team quietly tell you about a confirmed film or two). Celebrating alongside will be Mayor London Breed and the SF Gay Men’s Chorus. Frameline’s Director of Programming, Allegra Madsen, will be on-site to welcome the crowd, and we’ll be joined by Film SF Executive Director Manijeh Fata, Roxie Theater Executive Director Lex Sloan, and emcee Donna Sachet. This is a fundraiser for Frameline, so small donations are welcome. Beverages for purchase and limited complimentary bites will be available.

Divas & Drinks: Celebrating Frameline47

From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family, both the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Winner of the Queer Lion at the Venice Film Festival and selected as North Macedonia's official submission for the Best International Feature Film for the 2024 Oscars.

Housekeeping for Beginners

After getting dumped by the boyfriend he moved to Berlin to be with only a few weeks prior, 22-year-old Moritz reimagines his life (and his appearance) as a single gay man in the hedonistic queer party capital of Europe.

Drifter

1970 Brazil: at an isolated country retreat, a clandestine group becomes the glamorous women they long to be. But as this dark-hued, pulpy melodrama unfolds, their secret feminine fantasy world may soon be exposed and destroyed.

House of Izabel

These shorts honor queer bodies and blossoming libido while complicating and interrogating body politics. With nudity and eroticism, this program highlights the intoxication of sexuality and importance of bodily autonomy.

Shorts: The Ace of Wands Tarot

Using footage from over 125 gay adult films, Ask Any Buddy is a kaleidoscopic snapshot of gay life from the 1960s to the early ’80s. Directed by queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell, based on her successful podcast of the same name.

Ask Any Buddy

A conversation over brunch between a Filipino literature professor and his former student becomes a cat-and-mouse game: power dynamics shift, secret relationships are revealed, and at times we wonder, who is schooling whom?

About Us But Not About Us

Joining his bohemian brother in Paris with the hopes of jumpstarting his adult life, a self-confident gay boarding school student finds his sense of self unraveling in the wake of a family tragedy.

Winter Boy

Come celebrate lesbian erotica created by and for lesbians with a pair of films from filmmaker and renowned sex educator Debi Sundahl and Fatale Media. Presented by PinkLabel.TV and hosted by Shine Louise Houston!

Debi Sundahl Double Feature

Young, Black, bisexual law student Simone pays for school by moonlighting as a camgirl. Aiming to keep these two facets of her life separate, these two worlds nevertheless become entwined in dangerous ways.

Rule 34

Philip, Hussein, Remy, and Shammy are the dignified, human faces of an unfolding crisis: these refugees are among the thousands whose lives are in peril due to Uganda's draconian laws that criminalize homosexuality.

Out of Uganda

Sebastián Silva is an artistically blocked, ketamine-addicted artist in Mexico City. After nearly drowning at a gay nude beach, he's rescued by a social media star with a new project that could pull him out of his rut.

Rotting in the Sun

With jaw-dropping visuals, this docu-fiction hybrid weaves a dazzling tapestry of young queer life in the city of Medellín alongside the ever-present phantoms that haunt the streets of Colombia's infamous city.

Anhell69

In this intergenerational tale of gay life in Japan, an elderly children’s book author and a perpetually bored twentysomething sex worker end up accompanying each other on a surprising journey of emotional and physical discovery.

Old Narcissus

In this diabolical Hitchcockian thriller, a desperate working class woman connects with the billionaire father she's never met, inserting herself into a mysterious world of the French upper crust.

The Origin of Evil

One of the masterworks of erotica cinema, Le beau mec charts its titular heartthrob (Karl Forest) through a dreamscape of erotic fantasy—from outdoor exploits, gym cruising, nude performances, and a fetish club orgy.

Le beau mec

In this year's Out in the Silence Award recipient, two young men form a powerful connection with one another in Nigeria, where homosexuality is illegal. Winner of the Teddy Award at the Berlinale.

All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White

In this campy thriller, teenage badass Jonny enrolls in a new school full of plastic surgery-obsessed adults, acerbic teens, and fake purity pledges — not to mention a masked maniac picking off the popular girls one by one.

Perpetrator

Fleeing Iran on human rights grounds, Iman and his family find themselves in Sweden awaiting asylum. When he starts to train with a wrestling team against his wife’s wishes, the real reason for their flight begins to emerge.

Opponent

July 25, 2023 &amp; March 4, 2024: Problemista is a fresh comedic take on an oft unseen immigrant story. Narrated by Isabella Rossellini and starring Tilda Swinton, this hilarious and surreal film marks the directorial debut of writer/actor/comedian Julio Torres.

Problemista

Through the story of an aspiring gay Mexican adult film star named Lalo Santos, director Manuel Abramovich slyly blends fiction and documentary in this artful, alluring portrait of sex in the age of OnlyFans.

Pornomelancholia

East London nurse Franky's first romantic relationship with another woman pushes her to confront the demons of the past — notably a mysterious fire that left both her mind and body scarred — in complicated ways.

Silver Haze

With unabashed confessional interviews and a dynamic visual style, Kokomo City is an electric portrait of the inner lives of four Black trans sex workers in America. An Audience Award winner at Sundance and Berlin.

Kokomo City

March 6, 2024: From director Rose Glass comes an electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou (Kristen Stewart) falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.

Love Lies Bleeding

November 21, 2023: Free screening followed by live Q&amp;A with director Daniel Peddle! Immersive and sensorial, Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later revisits four of the original subjects from Daniel Peddle’s groundbreaking 2005 film The Aggressives.

Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later

Co-written by director Emma Seligman and star Rachel Sennott (Shiva Baby), Bottoms follows two unpopular girls — PJ (Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) — in their senior year who start a fight club to try to hook up with cheerleaders.

Bottoms

February 7, 2024: Uninhibited free spirit Jamie bemoans yet another breakup with a girlfriend. Her demure friend Marian desperately needs to loosen up. In search of a fresh start, the two embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, but things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals along the way.

Drive-Away Dolls

November 6, 2023: Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.

Saltburn

After its indomitable and beloved founder (Amy Sedaris) falls into a coma, the eccentric staff of a scrappy theater camp must band together with her clueless “crypto-bro” son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

Theater Camp

Over the course of 24 hours, Feña is reunited with three people he has not seen since transitioning: his father who lives in Chile, a younger sister unaware of his transition, and a former lover who hasn’t fully moved on.

Mutt

November 9, 2023: A screenwriter (Andrew Scott) drawn back to his childhood home enters into a fledgling relationship with a mysterious neighbor (Paul Mescal) as he then discovers his parents appear to be living just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

All of Us Strangers

A darkly comedic tale of New York neighbors, the ways in which we become interwoven with the lives of strangers, and the unexpected consequences of unasked-for intimacy.

Troy

Offering a vital survey of Kevin Smith’s divisive 1997 boy-meets-lesbian romcom Chasing Amy, a young director charts the complicated legacy of the first queer film he ever saw and how it saved his life.

Chasing Chasing Amy

October 24, 2023: A visceral and impulsive queer illusionist, Bertrand Mandico (The Wild Boys; After Blue) casts his magic lantern on an imaginary pre-history, as well as some new little shops of horrors, rendered simultaneously in color and black-and-white.

She Is Conann (Frameline Fangs)

October 18, 2023: Starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster and from the Oscar-winning directors of Free Solo, Nyad is the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.

Nyad

October 3, 2023: A pair of business rivals discover that they're identical twins and decide to swap places in an attempt to trick their divorced parents to get back together. Megan Thee Stallion, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, and Bowen Yang star in A24's first musical extravaganza!

Dicks: The Musical

October 30, 2023: Activist Bayard Rustin (a powerful Colman Domingo) faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.

Rustin

November 1, 2023: Winning both the Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance, writer-director-producer Maryam Keshavarz delivers a universal and timely story of the Iranian and the Iranian American experience.

The Persian Version

September 6, 2023: Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal), a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world, but also his own life. Based on a true story. Raúl Castillo, Roberta Colindrez, and Bad Bunny also star.

Cassandro

Belonging: A Trans Immigrant Story narrates the story of Anjali Rimi through her gender journey as a Kinnar trans immigrant woman and her mother.

Belonging: A Trans Immigrant Story

This double bill of portraits of queer Bay Area activists highlights trailblazing lesbian writer Jewelle Gomez and Anjali Rimi, a trans immigrant who followed her passion for social justice from India to San Francisco.

Local Legends

An erotic thriller for a new generation, Heartbeast follows young aspiring rapper Elina and her new step-sister Sofia, whose bond quickly turns into a dark obsession for both women, with shocking consequences.

Heartbeast

A tribute to one of Boston’s oldest queer bars, Playland condenses decades of history into one stark, opulent reflection on queer spaces, the people that inhabit them, and the destructive forces they provide refuge from.

Playland

A high speed race down the streets of Ukraine is met with a warm embrace.

It’s a Date

Following a pathbreaking young candidate’s first forays into national politics, this film captures the obstacles, hopes, and dreams wrapped up in Malcolm Kenyatta’s 2022 campaign for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania.

Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn

A recent college graduate (Natalia Dyer) falls into a seductive social life and a triangle of attraction with two new friends, party girl Tyler (Rachel Keller) and the more reserved, thoughtful Danny (Danny Ramirez).

Chestnut

Produced by Sofia Coppola, this adaptation of Alysia Abbott’s memoir depicts the early days of gay liberation in bohemian San Francisco through the eyes of an 8-year-old and her poet father.

Fairyland

Is Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy — where Ben Affleck falls for out queer Joey Lauren Adams — a straight man’s lesbian fantasy run amok, or does it actually depict the nuances of pan- and bisexuality better than many films made today?

Chasing Amy

Robin is trying to fit in at a new school (even if the other kids can’t figure out if they are “a boy or a girl”). When Robin befriends a stand-offish bully, they begin to discover the pitfalls of conformity.

Before I Change My Mind

With a cinéma vérité eye, Queendom tracks visionary, gender-defying internet sensation and fearless art rebel Gena Marvin as she navigates Russia’s draconian treatment of queer activists, performers, and people.

Queendom

In the '50s, trans women found refuge in Casa Susanna, a remote house in the New York Catskills where they were able to express their authentic selves. This riveting doc reunites many of Casa Susanna's former guests.

Casa Susanna

Zaida is diving back into Barcelona’s lesbian dating scene after getting dumped, navigating a crowded sea of current and future ex-girlfriends, late night connections, and doomed crushes on happily coupled women.

Girlfriends & Girlfriends

For Frameline47’s first official screening, we’re returning with brand new restorations of a pair of indispensable shorts that have played significant roles in the history of the Festival and the Frameline Distribution catalogue.

Shorts: Restorations & Revivals: The Ace of Swords

Adapted from the beloved YA novel, this joyful story of boys on the cusp of manhood follows the blossoming friendship between Aristotle and Dante, two Mexican American teenagers growing up in late-‘80s Texas.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

An American college student takes French immersion classes in the process of “finding herself abroad” in Paris.

L’apprenante (The Learner)

Surviving Voices is a multi-year documentary project about the impact of the AIDS epidemic on various communities in the US. This installment covers the untold story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

Surviving Voices: AIDS Memorial Quilt Panel Makers

Filled with Indigo Girls hits, this glittery musical follows a budding romance between a young musician and a spirited circus kid, surrounded by Lea DeLaria, Tig Notaro, Kate Pierson, Peppermint, and Ming-Na Wen.

Glitter & Doom

In this powerful documentary, two intersex people living in Johannesburg, South Africa — one a beauty queen, the other an activist — seek to discover and embrace themselves as they truly are, not as the world would have them.

Who I Am Not

Eman is an all-around badass, fully active in her queer Muslim community. That is... except when she goes home to visit her traditional mother, who has no idea that she’s queer.

Coming Around

Celebrating their joy, siblinghood, and unapologetic personas, the film explores the power and beauty of being nonbinary in a community that can be both liberating and compartmentalized around gender.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, Going to Mars is a celebration of Blackness and Afro-futurism as shown through iconic poet Nikki Giovanni. Join us for Frameline's annual Juneteenth screening and celebration.

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Desperate to meet the undeniable love of her life who lives over 500 miles away, newly-out Twinkie convinces her best friend Egghead to put his unrequited love for her aside to embark on a road trip to Texas.

Egghead & Twinkie

In this mesmerizing concert film, Oscar-winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman document drag superstar Taylor Mac’s 24-hour performance showcasing the popular music of every decade in American history.

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Featuring interviews with Jewelle Gomez, Dorothy Allison, and Sarah Waters, In Her Words lovingly documents the evolution and expansion of sapphic literature through the lens of American history in the 20th century.

In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction

Brazilian couple Melanie and Marcela are having twins. Their journey to motherhood captured in this doc, which gets down to the nitty-gritty of pregnancy as Marcela begins taking hormones so she too can nurse their babies.

M Is for Mothers

When an all-white women's organization tries to solve their diversity problem by assembling the perfect mix of marginalized people for an all-inclusive manifesto, this leads to breakups, breakdowns, and a near-break-in, in this comedy.

Clashing Differences

An unexpected crush turns a camping trip into a weekend of self-discovery for awkward 14-year-old Jamie, in this heart-warming coming-of-age film.

Big Boys

The intersex subjects of this documentary by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Julie Cohen speak out and enthusiastically celebrate their authenticity against the traditions of sensationalism, silence, and shame.

Every Body

In the year 2069, an ailing king recalls his memories of youthful defiance when he abandoned the monarchy to become a firefighter and fell for one of his fellow firemen. From the provocative director of The Ornithologist and O Fantasma.

Will-o’-the-Wisp

When aimless Manon (Louise Chevillotte) begins work at an unconventional strip club, she falls hard for her fellow stripper Mia (Zita Hanrot), forcing her to question her priorities as she explores her newfound erotic life.

My Sole Desire

This wide-ranging (and fabulously gossipy) doc brings to life the passion and true life of photographer George Platt Lynes, who wielded good looks, talent, and ambition in pursuit of artistic creation and sexual pleasure.

Hidden Master: The Legacy of George Platt Lynes

Perpetually horny bisexual Jess is the maid of honor at her best friend’s off-the-grid wedding, but complications arise with the ex-girlfriend she can’t stop fantasizing about also on the expected guest list.

Jess Plus None

In this erotic drama from director Julián Hernández, two neighbors battle their loneliness and lustful yearnings as they try to connect with each other (with anyone) as an unnamed pandemic ravages the world around them.

The Trace of Your Lips

Not only one of cinema's great lesbian films but also one of the essential book-to-screen adaptations, Desert Hearts brings Jane Rule's 1964 novel to life against the stunning backdrop of the American desert.

Desert Hearts

Come warm yourselves by our Sun with these homegrown shorts, showcasing diverse local talent and a wide range of genres. These stories present a transformative future filled with compassion and change.

Shorts: Homegrown: The Sun Tarot

Bring your friends and family of all ages to Frameline's free Family Matinee screening of Pixar's brand new feature Elemental. The PixPride team will be on hand with limited free giveaways for children.

Elemental

Grouping together 7 shorts that played before features during Frameline47’s in-person screenings, this virtual-only program offers an eclectic line-up of international shorts from 5 different countries.

Shorts: The World Tarot

From their early days as one of the few openly queer musical acts to their response to the current political era, Grammy-winning musical duo the Indigo Girls come center stage in this definitive documentary portrait.

It’s Only Life After All

On the frozen coast of Scandinavia, the friendship between a hard-edged Polish immigrant laborer working at a salmon-processing factory and the adopted Black son of his new boss slowly develops into something more.

Norwegian Dream

In this striking feature film debut by Frameline alum Joseph Amenta, three young friends attempt to infiltrate a local queer nightclub, but their impish ways quickly turn dangerous.

Soft

An underground band of radical Black queer HIV+ activists take to the streets of NYC to combat conservative politicians and government apathy towards AIDS. Frameline proudly presents the world premiere of this pristine 4K restoration.

Chocolate Babies

In a Belgian youth correctional facility, pensive teen Joe is getting ready to regain his freedom, but the arrival of live-wire William into the adjacent cell sends shockwaves through his system.

The Lost Boys

With an all-star cast that includes Billy Porter, Luke Evans, and Robin Weigert, Our Son offers an absorbing take on familiar themes of parenthood and family through the eyes of a gay married couple on the brink of divorce.

Our Son

A fascinating, emotional history lesson from director Jeffrey Schwarz (Vito; I Am Divine), Commitment to Life dives deep into the true, twisty story of the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles in the early 1980s.

Commitment to Life

Leaving her girlfriend behind, a young Swedish woman relocates to San Francisco. Looking to explore her sexuality, she meets a professional dominatrix and a trans rent boy, who introduce her to the world of sex work.

Labor

Cora (an amazing Megan Stalter) senses her open relationship is on the rocks. When the struggling musician and messy millennial goes home to Portland to win her girlfriend back, she realizes it’s much more than her love life that needs salvaging.

Cora Bora

This inspiring hybrid doc focuses on a group of people driven to tell the world what it’s like to live with HIV in present day Ireland. Features first-person confessions of young activists living with the disease.

How to Tell a Secret

Two women — one Tamil, the other half Mohawk, half Iranian — search for what it means to belong to a family or tribe as they meet, explore the city of Toronto, and slowly begin to fall in love.

This Place

In this warm, romantic drama, a free-spirited artist inspires Liv, a young woman accustomed to routine and stability, to look beyond her familiar horizons as she finds herself changing along with the seasons.

The Venus Effect

Rebellious and ravishing Empress Elisabeth, aka Sisi, escapes Viennese court life to create a proto-queer paradise on a Greek isle. There she develops a deep bond with her latest plaything, the charismatic lady-in-waiting Irma.

Sisi & I

Following two transwomen in Bhopal, India, as they seek a safe place to call home after an unjust eviction, this intimately shot Audience Award winner at SXSW asks not just where, but in whom do we find home.

A Place of Our Own

Through stories of romance, from the fantastical to the everyday, couples overcome the challenges of dating to build a new reality together. Ideal for date night, this program may cause viewers to die from the cuteness.

Shorts: The Lovers Tarot

With a fresh documentary look at an impossibly rich career, director Stephen Kijak (Sid &amp; Judy, Frameline43) makes time for both the private life and persona of one of Hollywood’s greatest stars: Rock Hudson.

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