FL48: Films I Didn’t See

Try as I might, I was not able to see every single film in Frameline48. Here are the feature-length films I missed. Somehow, yet again, I managed to miss the 🏆 Audience Award winners for both best narrative feature and best documentary feature.

• 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, dir. Dana Flor, 2024 USA, 77 min. (Ani DiFranco biopic)
  
  
• 雪水消融的季節 (After the Snowmelt), dir. Lo Yi-Shan, 2024 Taiwan/Japan, 110 min., in Mandarin, Nepali, and English • North American premiere (documentary about two friends who were trapped in a cave in Nepal for 47 days)
  
  
• 從今以後 (All Shall Be Well), dir. Ray Yeung, 2024 Hong Kong/China, 93 min., in Cantonese with subtitles (lesbian widower deals with her ex-wife’s family’s homophobia; relates to Yeung’s previous feature 叔・叔 (Suk Suk) (Twilight’s Kiss) (2019, Frameline43) about two older gay men)
  🏆 Frameline48 Audience Award for Narrative Feature
  
  
• Carnage for Christmas, dir. Alice Maio Mackay, 2024 Australia, 70 min. (campy horror film about a trans true-crime podcaster who pursues a masked killer in a Santa outfit)
  
  
• Don’t Change Hands, dir. Paul Vecchiali, 1975 France, 91 min., in French & English 🔞 (X-rated blackmail mystery with a lesbian private eye, gay porn, and bisexual orgies)
  
  
• Haze, dir. Matthew Fifer, 2024 USA, 76 min. (horror film about a gay journalist investigating deaths at a now-defunct psychiatric hospital; I left early because I didn’t feel well)
  
  
• Life is not a Competition, but I’m Winning, dir. Julia Fuhr Mann, 2023 Germany, 79 min., in German and English (documentary about gender nonconforming athletes)
  
  
• Pumping Iron II: The Women, dir. George Butler, 1985 USA, 107 min. (documentary sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger starmaker Pumping Iron, featuring four women competing in the 1983 Caesars World Cup in Las Vegas)
  
  
• Sally! dir. Deborah Craig, 2024 USA, 94 min. • World premiere (documentary about radical lesbian feminist Sally Gearhart; unfortunately, I didn’t get to see Craig’s 2018 short doc “A Great Ride” (Homegrown Shorts, Frameline42), also about Sally Gearhart. I’m still hoping to get my hands on the new one, so watch for an update)
  
  
• Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers, dir. Robert J. Kaplan, 1972 USA, 82 min. (movie musical extravaganza starring trans superstar Holly Woodlawn, restored by the Academy Film Archive)
  
  
• Split, dir. Iris Brey, 2023 France, 96 min., in French with English subtitles U.S. premiere (episodic about a lesbian stunt double, with romance, activism, and stunts)
  
  
• That Boy, dir. Peter Berlin, 1974 USA, 79 min. 🔞 (Peter Berlin starred in and directed this film about Peter Berlin the sex symbol. Peter Berlin was expected to attend the 2024 Frameline screening of the new 2K restoration of this gay classic.)
  
  
• The World According to Allee Willis, dir. Alexis Spraic, 2024 USA, 98 min. (bio of prodigious songwriter Allee Willis, who wrote for Earth Wind & Fire, the Pointer Sisters, the Pet Shop Boys, and the theme song from Friends.)
  🏆 Frameline48 Audience Award for Documentary Feature

In addition, here are the short films I missed this year, listed with the shorts program:

• “You can’t get what you want but you can get me” (2024) (“Come to My Window: Date Night”) 
  🏅Frameline48 Jury Award: honorable mention, Outstanding Documentary Short
  
  
• “The Deep Queer Massacre” (2023) (“Fangs After Dark”)
  
  
• “Mamántula” (2023) (“Fangs After Dark”)
  
  
• (“Stink” 💩 was in “Fangs After Dark” and also “Cruel Summer”)
  
  
• “100 Boyfriends Mixtape” 🔞 (2016) (“Erotic City Shorts”)
  
  
• “Alley of the Tranny Boys” 🔞 (1998) (“Erotic City Shorts”)
  
  
• “Birthday” 🔞 (2018) (“Erotic City Shorts”)
  
  
• “Loads” 🔞 (1980) (“Erotic City Shorts”)
  
  
• “Score” 🔞 (2012) (“Erotic City Shorts”)
  
  
• “Transit” 🔞 (2023) (“Erotic City Shorts”)