Frameline49 Streaming Details

I’m about to head out to the last in-person screening of Frameline49, but we don’t have to say goodbye just yet. The Digital Screening Room has a very limited selection of the films from the in-person festival. The choices are few, but they chose quite well — most of them I rate “must see.”

Note that Frameline added two streaming-only compilation shorts programs, “Wild Combination” and ”Queer Quartet,” with shorts from various in-person programs.

Shorts programs: (links to Film Queen Review write-ups; or go to summary index)

• “Alien Extravaganza”
• “First Impressions, Lasting Connections: Date Night Shorts”
• “Fun in Shorts” (7 out of 8 shorts)
• “Homegrown”
• “Saturday Morning Cartoons” 🔞 (6 out of 9 shorts)
• “Scared Shortless”
• “Truth Be Told: Documentary Shorts”
• not “It’s a Family Affair” (1 of 5 included in “Queer Quartet”)
• not “Outside Voices: Leaders in Queer Cinema Supported by Colin Higgins Foundation” (2 of 4 included in “Wild Combination”, 1 in “Queer Quartet”)
• not “Queer Quickies” (1 of 8 included in “Wild Combination”)
• streaming only: “Wild Combination” and “Queer Quartet” (selected shorts from various shorts programs and shorts that were paired with a feature)

Feature-length documentaries: (links to Film Queen Review)

• 💖 Assembly
  
  
• 💖 gen_
  
  
• 💖 Heightened Scrutiny (within California only)
  
  
• 💖 In the Best Interests of the Children (for some reason, the Frameline guide lists this as a narrative feature, but it is a documentary)
  (preceded at the in-person screening by 💖 Lesbian Custody, which streams in the “Queer Quartet” program)
  
  
• 💖💔❤️‍🩹💝 A Mother Apart
  
  
• 💖 Niñxs
  
  
• 💖 Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency
  
  
• 💖 Row of Life
  
  
• 💖 Trans Memoria

Narrative features: (links to Film Queen Review)

• 💖 If You Are Afraid You Put Your Heart Into Your Mouth and Smile (Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lächelst)
  
  
• 👏 Lakeview
  
  
• ⚠️ 💖 Pooja, Sir (राजागंज)
  
  
• 👍 Silent Sparks (愛作歹) (screened in-person with ❓ Like What Would Sorrow Look (愁何狀), not reviewed and not included in the streaming package)
  
  
• 👏 Skinny Love (Einskonar ást)
  
  
• ⚠️ 👏 Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
  
  
• 🫤 Valencia

I saw and reviewed every single film that was available in the Digital Screening Room, with one exception: due to an oversight, I did not see Sister! in the “Fun in Shorts” program, and only realized after it was too late.

Ninxs, Wenn du Angst hast nimmst du dein Herz in den Mund und lachelst, laechelst, Einskonar ast