“I love watching time unfold.” Amy muses as she watches a caterpillar form into its chrysalis. Always with a camera, Amy has been documenting time unfolding as her transgender child, Adam, grows up – even more so over the last eight years while the two have been filming this documentary together. This beautifully intimate film is the story of three characters: a trans kid, a mother, and the ever-present march forward of time.

Pioneering lesbian filmmaker, former San Franciscan, and Frameline Award winner Barbara Hammer takes center stage in Brydie O’Connor’s Teddy Award-winning film. Bolstered by exquisitely edited archival footage, this doc assembles a lyrical portrait of the ambitious visual poet behind Nitrate Kisses and other groundbreaking experimental queer works, illuminating how Hammer’s legacy continues to inspire artists and preserve our shared histories.

When Tendai’s housemate moves out, they find themselves facing access challenges alone for the first time. As they navigate their independence, they are hounded by the image of the “perfect wheelchair user” and how they feel they fail to match up to it, until they decide to take action and free themselves from the narrative.

Bless us, Sisters, for we are in need of joy — and perhaps a loincloth or two! Thank hunky Jesus, this documentary blends the activism, radical resistance, and hilarity of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from their beginnings to present day. With all the glitz and heart you’d expect, Hunky Jesus gives rise to the artistry, compassion, and fire that fuels the Sisters’ impact on the community.

Beneath the hypermasculine world of central Mexico’s rodeos lies a hidden queer subculture that both defies and celebrates Michoacán’s beloved cowboy mythology. This extraordinary and artistically striking motion picture reveals the surprising dual personality of the jaripeo; guided by co-director Efraín Mojica, acting as both subject and interlocutor, Jaripeo intertwines documentary and dreamlike personal journey into a ravishing reflection on machismo.

Starring, written, and directed by San Francisco’s own D’Arcy Drollinger, this riotous sequel to Shit & Champagne sees its titular dancing queen framed for her husband’s murder, leading to even more madcap hijinks — and now she’s back for the Opening Night of Frameline50!