The 48th annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, hosted by arts nonprofit  Frameline48, has officially unveiled its lineup.

The longest-running LGBTQ+ film festival in the world will take place June 19 through 29 with screenings and events in theaters across the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Roxie Theater, the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, the Herbst Theatre, the Vogue Theatre, and The New Parkway Theater in Oakland. The lineup was curated from over 1,600 submissions and boasts a 4K restoration “Go Fish” restored in 4K, in part by Frameline, for its 30th anniversary. “Go Fish” previously earned Frameline’s Completion Fund Grant.

Programming highlights include Alessandra Lacorazza’s debut feature “In the Summers,” which was awarded Frameline’s Completion Fund Grant and went to premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic. The “Queer Premiere” of writer/director Anthony Schatteman’s coming-of-age feature-length debut “Young Hearts” will usher in the festival’s First Friday Gala, hosted at Terra Gallery. 

In lieu of a traditional opening night show, Frameline48 will commence with the first-ever Castro neighborhood celebration of Juneteenth. As previously announced, the free outdoor Juneteenth Film and Block Party will feature an evening of music, drag performances from “Reparations” curated by winner of the Drag Queen of the Year Pageant, Nicki Jizz, as well as a screening of “Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero.”

“I can’t think of any better way to kick off Frameline48 than with a screening of ‘Long Live Montero,’” Allegra Madsen, Frameline’s executive director, said. “As a queer Black artist, Lil Nas X embodies so much of what this year’s Festival is about: meeting the cultural moment and using art as a means of expression, connection, and creating lasting change. At the same time, it’s important — and even revolutionary — to continue celebrating queer joy.”

In addition to screenings, the festival will feature a conversation with Lena Waithe on June 29 at The Herbst. Moderated by Variety Senior Artisans Editor Jazz Tangcay, the conversation with Waithe will also include the presentation of the Variety Creative Conscience Award, which honors an individual in the entertainment world who personifies the industry’s dedication to humanitarian, cultural, and charitable causes. IndieWire and Variety are both PMC brands.

Individual tickets for all screenings and events in the Frameline48 lineup will be available May 22 for Frameline members and on May 24 for the general public, for $24.00 at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Herbst and $19.50 per ticket at the neighborhood venues. For the first time, audiences can also purchase the Festival’s “Palace Pass,” for $200, which grants holders access to all public screenings at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater and the Herbst Theatre.

“Film festivals are often seen as being by and for tastemakers in our industry, but Frameline deepens that perception by being by and for change-makers,” the festival executive director Madsen said. “Queer and trans artists don’t just influence culture, they create it. Frameline48 celebrates and platforms that tireless innovation and spirit by bringing filmmakers and works from all over the world together in the Bay Area —a place that’s historically been on the pulse of propelling queer art forward.”

Check out the full lineup below.

Perfect Endings

Daniel Ribeiro

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Sally!

Deborah Craig

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Out

Dennis Alink

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

The Life of Sean DeLear

Markus Zizenbacher

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

If I Die, It’ll Be of Joy

Alexis Taillant

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Una película barata

Osama Chami

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Best Years

Jordan Hidalgo

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Vollúpya

Éri Sarmet & Jocimar Dias Jr.

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Threshold

Gregory Brecher

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Cucumber/Knife

Gustavo Vinagre

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Like You

Harrison Sheehan

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Euphoric

Cam Killion

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Trans Heaven, Pennsylvania

Hansen Bursic

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Well, I Should Get Going

Celine Sutter

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Stink

Matias Breuer

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

After Hours

Star Amerasu

World Premiere | Queer Premiere

Cidade; Campo

Juliana Rojas

North American Premiere | Queer Premiere

After the Snowmelt

Yi-Shan LO

North American Premiere | Queer Premiere

Life Is Not a Competition, But I’m Winning

Julia Fuhr Mann

North American Premiere

The Deep Queer Massacre

Mathieu Morel

North American Premiere

MASC4MASC

Felix Greisinger

North American Premiere

Demons at Dawn

Julián Hernández

International Premiere

Duino

Juan Pablo Di Pace & Andres Pepe Estrada

International Premiere

Stories from My Gay Grandparents: Episode 1

J Stevens

International Premiere

The Astronaut Lovers

Marco Berger

US Premiere | Queer Premiere

Teaches of Peaches

Philipp Fussenegger & Judy Landkammer

US Premiere | Queer Premiere

Rookie

Samantha Lee

US Premiere

We Forgot to Break Up

Karen Knox

US Premiere

Helen and the Bear

Alix Blair

US Premiere | Queer Premiere

Stranger

Jehnny Beth & Iris Chassaigne

US Premiere

Volver

Borja Larrondo & Diego Sánchez

US Premiere

Halfway

Kumar Chheda

US Premiere

What a Feeling

Kat Rohrer

West Coast Premiere

Crossing

Levan Akin

West Coast Premiere

High Tide

Marco Calvani

West Coast Premiere

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

Michael Mabbott & Lucah Rosenberg-Lee

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

The World According to Allee Willis

Alexis Spraic

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

The Queen of My Dreams

Fawzia Mirza

West Coast Premiere

Fragments of a Life Loved

Chloé Barreau

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

I Don’t Understand You

Brian Crano & David Craig

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Split

Iris Brey

West Coast Premiere

Rent Free

Fernando Andrés

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Linda Perry: Let It Die Here

Don Hardy

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Meanwhile

Catherine Gund

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Lady Like

Luke Willis

West Coast Premiere

Fallen Fruit

Chris Molina

West Coast Premiere

Turtles

David Lambert

West Coast Premiere

1-800-ON-HER-OWN

Dana Flor

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Haze

Matthew Fifer

West Coast Premiere

Carnage for Christmas

Alice Maio Mackay

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

One Night at Babes

Angelo Madsen Minax

West Coast Premiere

Mother

Meg Shutzer & Brandon Yadegari Moreno

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

If I’m Here It Is By Mystery

Clari Ribeiro

West Coast Premiere

The Callers

Lindsey Dryden

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

The Birth of Naikee

Clémentine Decremps

West Coast Premiere

Alok

Alex Hedison

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Chimera

Kryzz Gautier

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Ripe!

Tusk

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Paradise Europe

Leandro Goddinho & Paulo Menezes

West Coast Premiere

Bold Eagle

Whammy Alcazaren

West Coast Premiere

Spookable

Jonathan Andre Culliton

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

¡salsa!

Antonina Kerguelén Román

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Burrow

Leaf Lieber

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

The Dinner

Jesús Martínez ‘Nota’

West Coast Premiere

T-Minus

Emily Lerer

West Coast Premiere

Kasbi

Farah Jabir

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Stud Country

Lina Abascal & Alexandra Kern

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Foraging

Matthew Jacobs Morgan

West Coast Premiere

Beach Logs Kill

Haley Z. Boston

West Coast Premiere | Queer Premiere

Dream Burger

Sami Kali

West Coast Premiere

The Judgment

Marwan Mokbel

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Sebastian

Mikko Mäkelä

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

The Summer with Carmen

Zacharias Mavroeidis

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Asog

Seán Devlin

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Chuck Chuck Baby

Janis Pugh

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Power Alley

Lillah Halla

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

In the Summers

Alessandra Lacorazza

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Can’t Stop Change: Queer Climate Stories from the Florida Frontlines

Vanessa Raditz, Natalia Villarán-Quiñones, Yarrow Koning, Jess Martínez, & Shoog McDaniel

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Riley

Benjamin Howard

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Don’t Change Hands

Paul Vecchiali

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Throuple

Greyson Horst

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

A House Is Not a Disco

Brian J. Smith

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

The Herricanes

Olivia Kuan

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Underground Orange

Michael Taylor Jackson

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Desire Lines

Jules Rosskam

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers

Robert J. Kaplan

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Lesvia

Tzeli Hadjidimitriou

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Doppelgängers³

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

After All

Amanda Villalpando

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

My Best Friend

Elina Street

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

There Are Things to Do

Mike Syers

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

RAT!

Neal Suresh Mulani

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

The White Crows

Denis Liakhov

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Stan Behavior

Tyler C. Peterson

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Goodbye Tango

Jason Laurits

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Grace

Natalie Jasmine Harris

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

Seat 31: Zoey Zephyr

Kimberly Reed

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

You can’t get what you want but you can get me

Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Bust

Angalis Field

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere | Queer Premiere

The Pansy of Pickadee

Gus George & Paddy Morahan

San Francisco Bay Area Premiere

Merchant Ivory

Stephen Soucy

National Anthem

Luke Gilford

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

Barnaby Thompson

Good One

India Donaldson

Queer Premiere

My Old Ass

Megan Park

Gondola

Veit Helmer

That Boy

Peter Berlin

Extremely Unique Dynamic

Harrison Xu, Ivan Leung, & Katherine Dudas

Second Nature

Drew Denny

Queer Premiere

Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way

Hao Zhou

Loads

Curt McDowell

Queen Size

Avril Besson

The Robbers

Isa Schieche

Sweet Dreams

Honey Lee Cottrell

ILY, BYE

Taylor James

Kai Haliʻa (Sea of Memory)

Angelique Kalani Axelrode

Queer Premiere

Birthday

Shine Louise Houston

Falling Up

Eric Garcia

Queer Premiere

Kings

Eric Garcia

Queer Premiere

Transit

Jiz Lee, Vanniall

The Barman’s Daughter

Shawna Virago

Score

Aron Kantor

Queer Premiere

The Device That Turned Me Into a Cyborg Was Born the Same Year I Was

Chella Man

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