Thirty-five years ago in the early days of New Queer Cinema, THE spot to gather and watch cutting-edge queer shorts was a run-down Mission district bar that hosted .99 Cent Queer Video Fest. Let the original curator (and bartender!) Jeffrey Winter of The Film Collaborative take you back!

With arresting cinematography, 10s Across the Borders delivers a long-overdue snapshot of ballroom culture in Southeast Asia through the art and work of three trailblazing performers. Not so much a companion piece to Paris Is Burning, Chan Sze-Wei’s exhilarating documentary is like the beautiful offspring of Jennie Livingston’s landmark film.

Harvey Milk is resurrected in this poignant short, which sets an original audiotape he recorded — to be played in the event of his assassination — in a recreation of his Castro Street camera shop.

A spiritually titillating alternative to phone sex.

Art, activism, and female-powered performance explode onto the scene in 1970s Los Angeles. Centered around the Woman’s Building, a tight-knit community of artists including the director Cheri Gaulke — alongside voices like Lily Tomlin — forged bold, groundbreaking work that reshapes the art world and echoes across generations.

“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.

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In a simple conversation on the train, two gay men expose the regrets they have over their friendship, which — years ago — nearly became something more. The two come away with a completely different view of each other, themselves and what could have been.

Written by and starring The Comeback and Hacks’ Dan Bucatinsky and featuring a rich ensemble cast that includes Richard Ruccolo, Sasha Alexander, Adam Goldberg, Christina Ricci, Andrea Martin, Doris Roberts, and Lisa Kudrow, All Over the Guy is a hilarious rom-com about a mismatched pair of gay men set up on a blind date by their mutual straight friends. Come revisit the Closing Night film of Frameline25 on the big screen again!

Safe sex in the 1970s. A classic from legendary gay experimental filmmaker Michael Brynntrup.

A musical short featuring our very own Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which originally premiered at the 5th annual Festival in 1981.

Carole Pope, legendary frontwoman of Rough Trade, shaped Canada’s punk and new wave scene in the 1970s and ’80s. Bold, unapologetic, and openly queer, she electrified audiences with hits like “High School Confidential.” Antidiva celebrates Carole, now in her 70s, as a trailblazing LGTBQ+ icon who continues to make music her own way.

A meditation on a mystic woman haunted by pronouns, personality, and projection. Through poetry, presence, and subtle exposition, the film forgoes conventional narrative structure in favor of circling around its thesis: What can you know about a person? They shift in the light.

A poetic supernatural horror film from Two-Spirit director Bretten Hannam filled with ominous dread and ambitious narrative time leaps, At the Place of Ghosts follows two estranged Mi’kmaq brothers who venture into the wilderness to exorcise a demon that is stalking them and to mend a division between the siblings from years ago.

The incomparable Mx. Justin Vivian Bond and comedian Mark Davis star in this faux homo promo by the late Jon Bush.

Bay Area Filipino drag queens blend ballroom and pre-colonial Babaylan spirituality as a reclamation and celebration of queer Filipino identity.

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.

There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror. But in the meantime we can smoke weed and surf with our friends.

Gay chaos ensues when groom-to-be John Michael (Cole Doman) reunites with his best man and old flame Alex (Michael Hsu Rosen) at a lakeside bachelor party weekend that draws the whole wedding party into the drama. Joined by mischievous duo, Luís and Simon, and hunky, bisexual Kit, this quartet of college pals have a time, stir up some mayhem, and find true love in this cheeky rom-com.

A scorching summer in a small village near Marseille. After a three-year absence, Lucas and his group of friends welcome back their best friend Hicham. This eagerly-awaited return quickly arouses conflicting emotions in the gang, but above all, new hopes in Lucas.

Star student Luthando’s world is turned upside down when the charismatic Aydana arrives at her elite all-girls boarding school in this delightfully inventive coming-of-age debut feature from director Sandulela Asanda. Able to bring its protagonist’s comic book-loving inner world to life, this comedy portrays girlhood and first love in all their awkward sweetness.

Lesya and her daughter Anya are living in a refugee camp, grappling with the torment of blackmail related to the disappearance of Lesya’s husband, who went missing during the war a year ago. In the camp, Lesya reconnects with her old friend Maria, a widow who, like Lesya, is haunted by the loss of a loved one.

One minute of nonbinary trans bodily exploration, shot in Pixelvision with a Fisher-Price PXL2000, in glorious b/w 15fps 120x90 resolution.

Suddenly dumped by his boyfriend and totally broke, Nate crawls to the only people that will take him, his sweet, offbeat grandparents, played by Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham and Caroline Aaron who welcome him to their lovely Jewish old folk’s home. Fueled by amusing energy, colorful characters and unique setting, the film digs deeper with big questions about identity and belonging.