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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

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

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

Jorge is 70 years old and is one of the most capricious and dedicated janitors at the Paradise Motel, except for a single detail: He secretly records the audio of the room’s guests.

The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Four Los Angeles queens land in a desert retreat (not exactly by choice) to help get their careers back on track after PR disasters. Starring Alaska, Laganja Estranga, and Michelle Visage.

God Save the Queens

Flight attendants, Chris and Wes, instigate twisted mile-high games with passengers, leading to the unimaginable — trying to make an emergency landing after someone poisoned the pilot.

Cock N’ Bull 3

A whack, irrelevant comedy about a black trans woman who tries to dilate, after four years of not dilating, to hook-up IRL with her online boyfriend.

Dilating for Maximum Results

A collaborative effort between some of queer cinema’s juggernauts — including future Oscar winner Rob Epstein, Frances Reid, Greta Schiller, Lucy Winer, Jan Oxenberg, and Barbara Hammer — captures the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979, largely unseen until its restoration last year.

Greetings from Washington, D.C.

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

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

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 help fulfill her fantasy of becoming a sex worker.

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

An unexpected love story develops over a box of tampons between Phoebe, a mini-mart cashier, and Kirby, a guy in transition.

(In)convenience

In this modern riff on the classic Frankenstein story, a nurse and a morgue pathologist develop a complex and terrifying relationship when one discovers that the other has developed a way to reanimate dead tissue.

birth/rebirth

Two cousins born in separate countries reunite in Brooklyn when a run-in with an ex turns the night into a mission of revenge.

Cousins

In the shadow of a strange natural phenomenon that has brought Prague to a halt, three women from different generations look for a path forward after their lives are each altered in small but uncanny ways.

Ordinary Failures

Cheerful and romantic, this exceptional coming-of-age film finds high school student Jake bewildered by the arrival Aleks, a handsome new neighbor, leading him to try out for the basketball team to get closer to him.

Golden Delicious

A young dominatrix-in-training receives an unexpected client.

Daddy Issues

This visually-exquisite short is a fusion of dance film and documentary — and a powerful profile of trailblazing transgender choreographer and activist Sean Dorsey.

Sean Dorsey Dance: Dreaming Trans and Queer Futures

The epic love of Youssou and Malek, told through song and a Greek chorus, must overcome immense obstacles.

Youssou & Malek

Frameline's annual Fun in Shorts program takes a comic approach to some of our deepest queer anxieties — whether it be flying, sex, social niceties, daddy issues, incidental murder, or the general miseries of apartment dwelling.

Shorts: Fun in Shorts: The Joker Tarot

A six-year-old butch Latina and her imaginary best friend Boo poorly navigate the drawn-out pains of puberty.

A History of Sitting in Waiting Rooms (or whatever longer title you prefer)

An unexpected crush turns a camping trip into a weekend of self-discovery for awkward 14-year-old Jamie, in this heart-warming story of a bear cub in training.

Big Boys

We’re thrilled to present a pair of newly restored masterworks of the golden age of X-rated cinema: Wallace Potts’ Le beau mec and San Francisco iconoclast Curt McDowell’s Loads.

Le beau mec

A night of dating, romance, and love in San Francisco.

Take Me There

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

In this adaptation of Philippe Besson’s award-winning novel, a celebrated author returns to his hometown in rural France and reluctantly confronts his past, as a young tour guide conjures his memories of first love (and lust).

Lie with Me

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not limited to her vanguard work The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez has long been at the foreground of culture and movement spaces. This doc explores explores the lineage that has shaped and been shaped by Jewelle.

Jewelle: A Just Vision

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

Characters mark the beginning of new relationships or the strengthen existing ones in this shorts program, which encompasses friendship, family (chosen and otherwise), and the complex dynamics of loving and being loved.

Shorts: The Ace of Cups Tarot

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

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

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

This nuanced, gentle dramedy explores the notion of connection through the experiences of a loving gay couple (Nico Totorella and Juan Pablo Di Pace) who discover they have differing ideas about what makes a family.

The Mattachine Family

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With a vibrant teen romance at its center, Girls Don’t Cry is a gritty but sweet coming-of-age road flick set along the back roads of the Italian countryside, as Elm and Mia escape on a transformative journey.

Girls Don’t Cry

Belonging: Trans Indian Story follows the organization Parivar Bay Area as they advocate for South Asian trans rights both locally and in India.

Belonging: Trans Indian Story

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

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

After conjuring a slice of pizza through an interdimensional portal, Grover and his best friend Aliee learn a hard lesson about the unintended consequences of manifestation.

Interdimensional Pizza Portal

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

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

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

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

A trio of friends retreat to a luxurious and isolated home in the middle of the woods for a weekend of hallucinogens and pool-lounging. But a strange nighttime encounter upends their queer holiday.

Under the Influence

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

A digital remastering of this 1991 award-winning Australian queer short film. Beginning with a gay bashing in the backstreets of Sydney, this award-winning film uses gesture, dance and interior monologue to explore the repercussions of this act of violence.

Resonance

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

Some Day All This Will Be Yours follows an increasingly strange pregnant woman giving her unborn child a guided tour of its inheritance: a haunted house. Amidst a riot of crumbling 1970s interior design, Some Day uncannily twists the tropes of motherhood, home, and family legacy.

Some Day All This Will Be Yours

Tired of her life with her husband, a woman decides to leave her home to spend a night of euphoria with her son and a group of friends.

Worlds Burning Amid the Shadows

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

It’s a Date

Young lovers flirt in a library but face challenges outside of the four walls.

Required Reading

A nightmare in reverie: five young queer people are admitted into a clinic to undergo conversion therapy. Enduring several different and harrowing methods to change their sexual orientation and/or gender identity, the sterile space of abject trauma struggles to suppress the abundance and beauty of queer love.

I Can See the Sun But I Can’t Feel It Yet

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

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

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

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

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

L’apprenante (The Learner)

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

An empty paper depicts a struggle between artistic composition and decomposition as the voice of the narrator-protagonist reminisces about her tumultuous relationship with a former girlfriend.

In the heart of Corona, Queens, two Ecuadorian siblings are placed at odds with each other when one reveals a sudden urge to leave their home.

Ñaños

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

A queer, non-binary, Latinx Indigenous curandera must convince their estranged best friend to sign off as their next of kin as they prepare to join thousands of others in their near future barrio in uploading their consciousness into a digital utopia called Digisphere.

Do Digital Curanderas Use Eggs in Their Limpias?

A valiant island warrior, wounded in battle against foreign invaders, falls into a mysterious underwater world.

Aikāne

Unemployed and recently dumped, Daniel spends his days at home eavesdropping on his therapist roommate's Zoom sessions. Over time, he begins obsessing over one patient in particular: a recently divorced man with anger problems and a uniquely crass way of speaking.

Knowing Me, Knowing You

When an interabled queer couple spends the night together for the first time, they must confront their complex relationships with desire, sexuality, bodily autonomy, and what it means truly to love another person.

As You Are

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

Hilton and Drew are two best friends living in Brooklyn during the height of a heatwave. One day, when installing an AC unit, disaster turns their world on its head and the future becomes incredibly unclear.

AC Unit

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.

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