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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives follows a mobile archiving center in a cargo trailer as it crosses the Midwest to digitize the VHS tapes of LGBTQ+ folks living in Middle America.

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.