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.

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.

Alice is 27 years old today. Even though she is suffocating a bit, she still lives with her parents and tends to live in her dreams to escape her dreary everyday life. After a psychedelic party on a factory roof, she has a serious drunken bike accident. Will this give her the courage to become an adult?

October 13, 2025. Directed by Luca Guadagnino, this psychological thriller centers on Alma (Julia 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.

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.

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.

This heady sex-positive exploration of intimacy, self-fulfillment, and the pursuit of pleasure is an embodiment of queer magic via an interweave of sex-positive rituals.

An up-and-coming experimental musician is invited to perform at a remote arctic research outpost for the resident scientists, an unwelcoming world which tests her resolve but expands her audience beyond the atmosphere.

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.

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.

March 5, 2026. Goethe-Institut San Francisco is thrilled to screen Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 on March 5 in partnership with Bay Area Black Leaders and Frameline.

Behind an unassuming "We Buy Gay Stuff" sign in San Francisco's Castro district — complete with a striking leather daddy illustration — lies an unexpected treasure trove of queer history.

When Sama’s girlfriend blows off their Friday plans, the teen copes with romantic rejection by blasting music in her room. When her dad suggests hanging out, she agrees. Their evening takes an unexpected turn as a message forces her to choose between authenticity and keeping up appearances.

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).

Simon reflects on the shared tenderness and tumultuousness of a fall day living with his Abuela. Painful memories both real and heightened surface, as he tries to reconcile the woman who loved him deeply with the one who left so much unsaid.

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.

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.

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.

After a mysterious girl shows up at Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a bird that had just cracked her window, an impromptu bird funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.

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.

The film is a deconstruction and reimagining of the female monster character Broodmother in video games.

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.

When culture vultures apply for citizenship on a new planet founded by Black people three judges must decide how to handle folks who want everything but the burden.

This is a short excerpt from Kialy Tihngang's larger art piece Lean Six Sigma (2023), which looks at opulence as a display of oligarchic overindulgence from a privileged few, distorting and multiplying the shapes of extractive industrial machinery, and the interior aesthetics of dictators’ homes and private jets.