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Lesbian Space Princess at PROXY

When a zombie apocalypse breaks out in Brooklyn on the night of a giant warehouse party, an eclectic group of drag queens, club kids, &amp; frenemies must put aside their drama and use their unique skills to fight against the brain-thirsty, scrolling undead.

Queens of the Dead

August 19, 2025 at 7 PM at AMC Metreon. Be among the first to see Honey Don’t! before its theatrical release from Focus Features on Friday, August 22.

Honey, Don’t!

Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the photographer whose images exist in an important lineage and dialogue with the work of groundbreaking gay artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe and David Wojnarowicz, forms the center of the latest movie by fearless independent American filmmaker Ira Sachs (Passages).

Peter Hujar’s Day

September 9, 2025 at 7 PM at AMC Metreon. Be among the first to see The History of Sound ahead of its theatrical release by MUBI on Friday, September 12.

The History of Sound

Directed by Luca Guadagnino (Challengers, Queer), this psychological thriller centers on Alma (Roberts), a college professor who is forced to grapple with her own secretive past after her protégée, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri), accuses another professor (Andrew Garfield) of abuse.

After The Hunt

After being kicked out of the house by their parents, a teen embarks upon a journey of self-discovery that teaches them about love, friendship, and family.

I Wish You All the Best

October 18-20, 2025 in LA, SF, &amp; Miami. The freewheeling filmic essay-meets-documentary, which takes questions of gender, history, and free thinking to the frontiers of space exploration, hits the road this October!

Doppelgängers North American Theatrical Tour

A young bisexual hustler sells his body to whomever is willing to pay — and in his new home of San Francisco, it’s usually men. But when he finally finds himself in a happy relationship, will the baggage of his profession cause him to lose everything? Quite possibly the first gay feature film shot in SF, The Meatrack is a newly-restored landmark of early queer cinema.

The Meatrack

A trans sex worker considering motherhood, a cis man dangerously spiraling into inceldom, and all of their assorted friends, clients, DL partners, exes, and black market HRT dealers are just some of the characters you’ll meet in this first 4.5 hour installment of director/star Louise Weard’s fearlessly DIY epic film about trans life in our modern world.

Castration Movie: Pt. I

Featuring Dylan O’Brien in a career-best turn, Twinless finds a charming odd couple pairing between straight Roman and gay Dennis, who meet at a support group for people who have lost their twin. A double prize winner at Sundance, James Sweeney's sophomore feature achieves a high-wire balancing act of laugh-out-loud comedy and gut-punching sadness, with filmmaking and storytelling sophistication to boot.

Twinless

A young hustler escapes the harsh realities of street life into a lushly erotic dream world. Famously hand-constructed and shot over the span of seven years in James Bidgood’s New York apartment, Pink Narcissus — presented in a 4K restoration — is a cornerstone of queer visual aesthetic whose influence can still be felt over 50 years since its original release.

Pink Narcissus

A small town arm-wrestling champion’s world is upended when his secret teenage love returns, resurfacing the passion he had long since buried. With the threat of an incoming flood on the horizon as their love slowly rekindles, he begins to question the future he had planned for himself in this keenly observed coming-of-age drama.

Sandbag Dam

With dizzying cinematography and break-neck suspense, director Simon Bouisson plunges the audience into the paranoid world of surveillance stalking. Architecture student by day, camgirl by night, a young queer woman’s new life in Paris is rattled when she realizes she’s being stalked by a mysterious drone.

Drone

Three decades ago, SNL bravely dared to ask “Who’s he… or she?” and turned gender nonconformity into a punchline with Julia Sweeney's Pat. Now, a who’s-who of trans comics are tasked with the ultimate challenge: creating a new Pat sketch for 2025, while also interrogating the boneheadedly problematic (yet nonetheless meaningful) representation of our past along the way.

We Are Pat

In 1981 in Odessa, Texas, the nude body of a Catholic priest was discovered in a seedy motel room. Cops had no leads until James Reyos, a young gay Apache man, suddenly confessed and was swiftly convicted. Though Reyos quickly recanted his confession, it took four decades for previously buried evidence to emerge, sending shockwaves through the town.

Night in West Texas

Croatia’s official submission to the Oscars is a stunning historical epic following four gay artist friends in Communist Yugoslavia. Lovro, Nenad, Stevan, and Ivan find themselves the target of the vengeful eyes of party loyalists and are forced to risk everything. The film serves as a haunting reminder of the danger of systems that demand unquestioning allegiance.

Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day

If you’ve ever wondered what gender-swap teen comedies like She’s the Man would look like if they were actually made by trans and nonbinary folks, look no further! In She’s the He, two best friends concoct a plan to finally dispel the rumors that they’re gay: by coming out as trans women!

She’s the He

Baby is in trouble. Fresh out of juvenile detention and with nowhere to go, 17-year-old Wellington (João Pedro Mariano) — nicknamed “Baby” — hits the streets of São Paulo alone. His parents have vanished, and the system is waiting to pull him back in, when boundaries begin to blur with a magnetic street hustler named Ronald (Ricardo Teodoro).

Baby

For his feature directorial debut, Sergio de León weaves surreal imagery, offbeat humor, and a ton of birds into one of the most vivid and original queer coming of age films in recent memory — about 18-year-old Emilio, who receives a cursed inheritance of a rural dovecote for carrier pigeons following the death of his mother.

Keep Coming Back

In the desert of southern California, every year a family dutifully works to convert their prefabricated home into a haunted house spectacle for neighbors to explore. But as the mundane slowly gives way to the macabre, the family's own personal problems are laid bare as the father's infatuation increasingly begins to take its toll on everyone.

Room Temperature

When two codependent besties suddenly find their house uninhabitable, a possible answer to all their problems appears in the form of a narcissistic space alien named Brian who favors track suits and loves a dance interlude. One mere sensual touch from Brian makes all of your anxieties and past traumas melt away. But is Brian's ulterior motive world domination?

Touch Me

Amidst his vibrant Copenhagen gay nightlife, young bathhouse attendant Johan finds himself unexpectedly falling for William, a charming trans man. What starts as a torrid romance quickly becomes a turning point for Johan. This forces him to confront the pressure of social norms that still persists in the gay community today and just how much he has to learn about the complexities of queer relationships.

Sauna

In this heartwarming tragi-comedy, a stoic plumber is forced to drive his estranged, gay brother home from jail in 1970s Canada. With Alan Cumming in a standout role, Drive Back Home is a funny, tender road movie about queer resilience, family baggage, and finding common ground across a snowy thousand-mile journey.

Drive Back Home

In writer/director/star Annapurna Sriram’s bold debut, AP seeks a cosmic reset after a tarot reading by Big Freedia demands $1,000 and a lamb to lift her curse. With best friend Danni (Sadie Scott) in tow, AP dives headfirst into their own Fool’s Journey through Trashtown, USA’s neon dystopia, as Sriram blends gorgeous 16mm, DIY spirit, and rule-smashing anarchy.

Fucktoys

John Lithgow and Oscar winner Olivia Colman star in Sophie Hyde's funny and heartfelt tale of a queer family reunion, as three generations of an Australian family reconvene in Amsterdam. Lithgow plays the titular Jimpa, an HIV-positive academic at the end of his tenure in the Netherlands, whose filmmaker daughter (Colman) and non-binary grandchild (Aud Mason-Hyde) come to visit in this Sundance standout.

Jimpa

Bold and defiant, romantic and horny, Daniel Nolasco’s dazzling new film chronicles a fateful gay romance across multiple decades (and possibly alternate dimensions as well). Beginning in 1984, an isolated farmer nurses a wounded motorcyclist back to health, but just as their love story begins, forces beyond their control begin to interfere.

Only Good Things

Meeting somewhere at the intersection of Before Sunrise and Weekend, this charming feature debut centers on two star-crossed but seemingly disparate men over the course of a single, chilly night in London. With palpable onscreen chemistry, Alexander Lincoln and Jack Brett Anderson ignite the screen as spoiled entrepreneur Oliver and struggling actor Lukas in this thoughtful meet (not so) cute.

A Night Like This

When two young boys are kidnapped in Nepal, butch lesbian Detective Inspector Pooja is called in to investigate and solve the case. After teaming up with a younger female detective, what begins as a straightforward case quickly spirals into something far more complex in this tense and gripping film inspired by real political events.

Pooja, Sir

Angelo Madsen’s sophomore feature dives into Fakir Musafar’s groundbreaking “Modern Primitives” movement. Fearless and unbiased, the film’s striking editing combines archival visuals and personal stories to reveal the complex life of this Bay Area artist and how his body modification practices reshaped queer identity and influenced alternative culture.

A Body to Live In

In a quiet Seoul apartment, two women fight to save their relationship. Heeseo suffocates under the weight of silence, secrecy, and survival while Seonwoo becomes consumed by a mysterious, unbearable odor seeping from the apartment below.  After exclusively making documentaries, Lucky, Apartment is the striking narrative feature debut from Kangyu Garam.

Lucky, Apartment

In the heart of Manila's neon underbelly, a young group of hustlers make a home for themselves around a seedy bus stop, turning tricks to make ends meet. One night when a member of the gang tragically dies from a drug overdose, the rest of the group bands together to return the body to his rural village, setting them on an unforgettable journey.

Some Nights I Feel Like Walking

In this provocative Sundance award winner, a closeted undercover cop (Tom Blyth) is tasked with being the bait to entrap gay men cruising the mall when he falls for one of his targets (Russell Tovey). Set in the 1990s, Plainclothes unfolds through a fragmented timeline with VHS-spliced visuals, dissolving the boundaries between secrecy and desire, watcher and watched.

Plainclothes

Twentysomething Anna finally leaves her small, transphobic hometown for good and quickly begins dating goth tattoo artist Gen after the two discover they share supernatural powers. But before Anna can call up the U-Haul, the sick neck tattoo Gen gives one of her clients inadvertently summons a demon that begins feeding off of their friends. Preceded by The Age of Flowering Plants.

The Serpent’s Skin

A casual one night stand between an aspiring young actor and a high profile political hopeful opens a Pandora's box of lusty power play, escalating dares, and public sex. For their scorching third feature, directing duo Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon boldly mix the themes of Fassbinder with the style of DePalma to resurrect the lost art of the erotic thriller for our contemporary queer era.

Night Stage

“What if everything you were told about yourself from the people you trusted was a lie?” Through the story of Jim Ambrose, who discovered he was intersex as an adult, this year's Out in the Silence Award winner exposes the truth about the harms caused by a bogus and bigoted medical study that lead to the normalization of a systemic practice which forced gender designations onto thousands of intersex children.

The Secret of Me

An eerie-yet-poignant ghost story from director Samuel Van Grinsven, this dramatic thriller centers on the grieving Jack (Dacre Montgomery), who returns to an isolated corner of New Zealand after his birth mother, Elizabeth, passes away. In addition to meeting Elizabeth’s grieving widow (Vicky Krieps), Jack has a series of  haunting, perspective-shifting encounters with his mother’s lingering spirit.

Went Up the Hill

Known for her unrestrained and debaucherous lifestyle, a successful trans actress (Camila Sosa Villada) defies every expectation that’s been placed upon her (both by her close friends and the conservative community of Argentina) when she decides to settle down and start a family with a new husband (Alfonso Herrera) — who happens to be gay.

Thesis on a Domestication

Laugh out loud with the classic Fun in Shorts program as this collection of films finds humor in dating, birthing alien babies, scamming your business to success, and cheesy baby gender reveal parties.

Fun in Shorts

Before it officially drops on Netflix, we’re hosting a free watch party for The Ultimatum: Queer Love season 2’s premiere at Rikki’s. Be among the first to see how the sophomore outing’s six different couples fare!

The Ultimatum: Queer Love – Season 2

Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel returns to Frameline with a glorious and impassioned tribute to the Florida Everglades. Drawing inspiration from the work of writer and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the film beautifully summons regional history to serve as a call to action to preserve the local ecosystem and fight the systemic threats of the climate crisis.

River of Grass

When the Straight White Maliens kidnap her ex, the titular sapphic monarch-to-be (voiced by Shabana Azeez) finds herself embarking on a truly zany journey through space. Filled with laugh-out-loud gay in-jokes, carabiner-tapping musical numbers, and offbeat characters, this year's Teddy Award winner is a lovably frenetic animated sci-fi comedy.

Lesbian Space Princess

As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young Black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

Rainbow Girls

A young auditor, a propagandist, and a foreign teacher untangle their lives within the confines of a faculty dormitory in China.

Like What Would Sorrow Look

A queer, colourful, experimental galaxy of new filmmaking. Join us for a voyage into alien aesthetics, cosmic glamour, genderfluid and pluralistic futures. Curated by Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian in partnership with the London Short Film Festival.

Alien Extravaganza

This tender and deeply personal documentary explores the complexities of identity, belonging, and reconciliation. Executive produced by Alex Gibney, Between Goodbyes tells the story of Mieke, a queer Korean adoptee raised in the Netherlands, and her birth mother, Okgyun, who was forced to give her up under as a result of cultural stigma and economic hardship.

Between Goodbyes

Exploring what it means to be a queer teen in the 2020s, Niñxs turns the transition narrative and the coming-of-age portrait on their heads, as director Kani Lapuerta lets Karla Bañuelos — who is always playfully aware of the camera — shape the project into a cinematic diary. This inventive doc was a recipient of a Frameline Completion Fund grant.

Niñxs

When Isio, an undocumented Nigerian fleeing homophobia, meets Farah, her roommate at a UK detention center, she finds an unexpected chance at happiness by allowing herself the luxury of dreams. Writer/director Joy Gharorro-Akpojotor’s timely, tender look at the migrant experience gives voice to oft-unnamed asylum seekers navigating an unjust system.

Dreamers

Effectively fusing romance into a slick neo-noir, Silent Sparks spins a tale of deep longing in an unexpected milieu, capturing a sumptuous beauty in the night streets where the possibility of risk and romance go hand-in-hand. Preceded by Like What Would Sorrow Look.

Silent Sparks

Bisexual content creator Emilý’s relationship with Katinka is everything she could ask for — especially since Katinka lives in Poland. When Katinka decides to move closer to take their relationship to a new level, free-spirited Emilý reevaluates what it means to be both sexually liberated and financially secure.

Skinny Love

Gifted with the bold visual flare you’d expect from a protégé of Luca Guadagnino, Giovanni Tortorici makes a striking directorial debut with Diciannove. The film offers an unconventional not-quite-coming-of-age portrait of a 19-year-old bisexual with wavering academic pursuits, a body that refuses to process alcohol, and a libido with unusual triggers.

Diciannove

Some men are literal dogs! And Juan just so happens to find one in the wilderness while on vacation. He takes him in, bathes him, feeds him, and shows him much-needed affection. However, his girlfriend warns against becoming too attached… Director Marco Berger is back with a boldly absurdist fairy tale where animal desires and instincts turn strangely literal.

Perro perro

A restful turned reckless retreat with a group of queer women reuniting for a weekend to celebrate a divorce, new loves, and old flings. With humor and grace, Lakeview navigates power dynamics in messy but loving relationships while questioning what happens when lessons learned don’t lead to patterns broken.

Lakeview

In 1990s Paris, long-term couple Emma and Sammy move into a new apartment, where they both find themselves drawn to their downstairs neighbor Cyril, a handsome young HIV-positive photographer. Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, and Théo Christine beautifully play three young people navigating a bisexual love triangle in a not-so-long-ago era when AIDS was almost always a death sentence.

To Live, to Die, to Live Again

How exactly did Dorothy Gale become a cinematic stand-in for the outcasts of the world? Featuring interviews with pop culture icons including John Waters, Lena Waithe, Amber Ruffin, and Margaret Cho to name a few, It's Dorothy! explores the origins and legacy of the character, from the ways she has been subverted and reimagined, to her impact on LGBTQ+ culture.

It’s Dorothy!

Star-studded with testimonies from Lady Gaga, Dionne Warwick, and Billy Porter, this documentary traces gay gospel singer Carl Bean's journey of liberation from music industry success to his influential AIDS activism. Uplifting and inspirational, Frameline49’s official Juneteenth celebration sings a song of love and pride for today’s dark times.

I Was Born This Way

Filmed and set in Oakland, Budget Paradise follows Chester, a Black, nonbinary painter as they search for space and permission to exist within their hometown.

Budget Paradise

Jero receives an unexpected first anniversary gift from his boyfriend Tom — a breakup letter, accompanied with 299 more offering brutally honest reflections of their love affair, from their first hot Grindr hookup to reluctant romance. Jero is left to reexamine their entire relationship while navigating the post-break up waters in this playful and alluring romantic comedy.

#300Letters

At a border checkpoint, the flames of desire ignite between an Indian border guard and a Kashmiri college student. A relationship seems impossible. Not only are both closeted, but opposing religions, ancient enmity, and current unrest stand between them. Still, neither can deny the erotic chemistry that burns with each encounter in this sensual romantic drama.

We Are Faheem & Karun

Known for being the first American woman to fly in space, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride kept her personal life private until her death — where it was revealed she had a long-term partnership with science writer and professor Tam O'Shaughnessy. This Sundance Award-winning documentary seamlessly blends archival footage and intimate interviews for a complete portrait of Earth’s first known lesbian space traveller.

Sally

Shot in stark black and white, this provocative film from actor-turned-director Jun Li follows a young gay man (Jayden Cheung, in a remarkable, daring debut) on an erotic travelogue of Hong Kong, moving from hookup to hook-up while quietly assuming the persona of his latest sexual encounter. Preceded by Carpobrotus.

Queerpanorama

Check your inhibitions at the door (and throw your hang-ups out as well) for this collection of erotic shorts from the past, present, and future that are playful, surprising, and explicit.

Queer Quickies: Erotic Shorts

Executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Librarians examines the book bans threatening schools and libraries in the United States. As legislators take aim at works that center on race and queerness, a group of librarians put their lives at risk to ensure that our stories aren’t removed from shelves — or erased from culture at large.

The Librarians

This Teddy Jury Award winner from the 2025 Berlinale meets the present moment with its novel coming-of-age story. Anchored by a poignant parent-child bond and effortlessly populated by LGBTQ+ characters, this feature debut is told through a refreshing queer lens that rearranges misplaced shame into a deeply felt sense of pride.

If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile

When The Rocky Horror Show opened in 1973, no one could have imagined the impact that the subversive rock musical would have on culture. As the movie turns 50, the original cast, creatives, and other pop culture icons (including Richard O’Brien, Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, and Trixie Mattel) reminisce about the process of bringing it to life, as audiences around the world continue to do the time warp again and again.

Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror

Over ten years have passed since Bay Area icons/activists/artists/partners Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens made their first queer environmental documentary feature in 2014, and with the climate crisis worsening with each passing season, the artist/activist duo are sounding the alarm with the third chapter: a cinematic reckoning with the power of fire.

Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency

Following the screening of Assembly, we’ll gather at Oasis for our now-iconic Pride Kickoff Party. Grab a complimentary drink and usher in Pride Weekend in San Francisco with drag performances by Reparations, an all-Black drag group curated by local star Nicki Jizz.

Assembly – Pride Kickoff Party

Spanning several years and finding hope in questioning the nature of endings, this meditative film finds filmmaker Victoria Verseau immersing herself in her own transgender history in order to find her path forward. With the company of two young women on their transition journey, Verseau recalls a lost friend, revisiting the stark past in order to contextualize her vivid present.

Trans Memoria

Tessitura delves into the ways that contemporary transgender opera singers navigate the traditional rule and categories of their art form, interweaving personal stories with historical contexts to highlight the ongoing dialogue about gender fluidity in opera.

Tessitura

Following the screening of Heightened Scrutiny, we’ll host our First Friday Party at Charmaine’s, the Proper Hotel’s rooftop bar. Attendees can enjoy complimentary food and drink as well as a night of great music, conversation, and classic San Francisco views.

Heightened Scrutiny – First Friday Party

This collection of rare, newly-preserved original movie trailers provides a fascinating — and entertaining — look at how gay porn of yore was marketed and sold: filled with lurid taglines, false promises, personal messages from the stars, and surprisingly creativity. As one trailer notes, “It’s Rated X, so come with a grownup.” Preceded by GANGBANG.

Coming Attractions: An Orgy of Gay Erotic Movie Trailers

A Mother Apart follows acclaimed spoken word artist and queer activist Staceyann Chin as she embarks on a deeply personal journey to understand her estranged mother — the woman who abandoned her in Jamaica at the age of nine. With brutal honesty, Chin asks the painful question: “Why would a mother leave her child?”

A Mother Apart

Celebrate queer stories from the Bay Area with the Homegrown program. This program features sci-fi, heists, gay stuff, elder stories, and more.

Homegrown

Don’t let the name fool you. From stories about queer erotic encounters to lusting over carrots, these animated shorts are strictly for adults.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

This streaming-only quartet of short films covers a range of LGBTQ+ subjects, from lesbian parenting, a multimedia performance dedicated to the māhū (transgender) people of Hawaii, a memorable family gathering for Passover, and a ode to masculine women.

Queer Quartet Streaming Shorts

In a nocturnal flower shop, young florist Valeria's life takes an extraordinary turn when she encounters fantastical beings whose mere presence ignites her curiosity and desire for self-exploration. After an erotic encounter with a mysterious being, she is triggered to have a profound transformation, and grapples with fear and uncertainty.

The Age of Flowering Plants

Lisette Marie Flanary’s documentary explores the Native Hawaiian concept of gender fluidity by interweaving intimate interviews with multimedia stage performance. A live performance by hula master Patrick Makuakāne will follow the screening.

MĀHŪ: A Trans-Pacific Love Letter at KQED

Unholy follows Noa, a young adult with a complex gastrointestinal disorder, as she attends her family's Passover Seder for the first time since being put on a feeding tube. There, she is confronted by pushy family members, malfunctioning medical devices, and a room full of food she cannot eat.

Unholy

The iconic Venus Xtravaganza was immortalized in Paris Is Burning. But this arresting documentary from director Kimberly Reed further explores her story: from her beginnings in the ballroom scene, to the efforts made by her birth and house families to preserve her legacy and demand justice for her murder.

I’m Your Venus

Three-time Paralympian and 14-time Guinness World Record setter Angela Madsen is a renowned ocean rower. By chronicling the year leading up to Madsen’s unsupported solo row from Los Angeles to Hawai’i, Row of Life captures both the everyday beauty of a lesbian love story and an athlete’s fearless tenacity in the face of harrowing adversity.

Row of Life

Presented in a new digital restoration, this groundbreaking, award-winning film “about who lesbian mothers and their children really are” portrays the diversity of experience, race and class among eight families and their challenges with custody, the children's fathers and the courts. Followed by Lesbian Custody.

In the Best Interests of the Children

This program looks at the relationships we have with our families and with ourselves. From self-love to the love of your deceased grandma, this collection of shorts will have you in your feels.

It’s a Family Affair

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the definitive literary portraits of queer San Francisco, Michelle Tea’s Valencia, Frameline49 is hosting a screening of its radical, community-made 2013 film adaptation, followed by a walking tour of old haunts and dyke destinations of The Mission with Tea serving as your guide.

(Return to) Valencia

Working with LGBTQ+ activists, poets, dancers, and rappers, Black visual artist Rashaad Newsome embarks on a new immersive project. Through personal stories and tributes, odes to ballroom culture, live music, and Afro-futurist AI, Newsome transforms an NYC armory into a performance, art, and resistance sanctuary for the queer community.

Assembly

From Juno MacGuff’s front-yard recliner to Alex Owens’ water-soaked prop in Flashdance, cinema loves a good chair. But not as much as Camille (Juliette Lewis) loves the chair at the center of By Design. Merging performance art, absurdism, and narration from a disembodied Melanie Griffith, this singular body-swap film views the idea of what it means to be desired through a definitively queer lens.

By Design

A salient document of our current moment, Sam Feder’s film centers on ACLU attorney Chase Strangio, the first out trans person to argue before the Supreme Court. Fighting to overturn Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, Strangio and other leading activists — like Laverne Cox and Elliot Page — examine how media bias influences the public’s perception of trans rights.

Heightened Scrutiny

During the Christmas holidays, a mysterious extra-terrestrial force bursts into the life of a suburban couple on the brink of divorce. However, neither of them notices this otherworldly presence, so this entity will just have to live with them in their grey, sad, and lifeless home, watching their relationship finally disintegrate.

Between Mars and Earth

From devious revenge plots to invoking a demon to eat your ex boyfriends, this program of dark comedy films is designed for those that find joy in the demise of others.

Scared Shortless

For the first time, this special presentation will celebrate the Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grants program and the success of its recipients by showcasing films from past and present grantees.

Outside Voices: New Leaders in Queer Cinema Supported by Colin Higgins Foundation

Unconventional rituals and explorations of sexuality involve slugs and the symbolic consumption of an orange.

The Eating of an Orange

Drag Race star Peppermint takes center stage in this up close and personal documentary about her journey with fame, identity, and the art of drag. Sharing her story alongside a close network of trans individuals, one of the world’s favorite drag performers takes you inside her rise from humble beginnings to her current reign as outspoken trailblazer for the trans community.

A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

Legendary Bboy Wicket, internationally renowned breakdancer, changed the game in the ‘90s. While the SF dancer seemed to have it all, the closeted gay man behind the persona, Gabriel Jaochico, struggled with the isolation of living a half-truth. This intimate documentary is the energizing story of the transformative power of art, and of living as your whole self.

WICKET

During her chaotic family’s Qingming visit, dead Grandma Nai sneaks away from her peaceful afterlife after overhearing that her queer grandson is about to get engaged to a woman.

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