“Doc Shorts” (documentary shorts program, 2026 edition) oinkfoo
Friday, June 19, 2026, 12:30 PM, Roxie
- 🤩 Communion (Comunhão), dir. Pétala Lopes, 2026, Brazil, 24 min., in Portuguese with subtitles 🇺🇳 International premiere
- ❓ Cruising Lesbiana, dir. Joyce Victoria Newrzella, 2026, Spain, 18 min., in Catalan and Spanish with subtitles; not available for advance review
- 😁 Here, Queer, and On TV, dir. Cassandra Herrman & Kelly Whalen, 2026, USA, 16 min. 🌐 World premiere
- 😁 Making It Fit, dir. Mariana Leal, 2026, UK, 5 min., 🌎 North American premiere
- 👎 Oh Paulo, dir. Cam Archer, 2025, USA, 17 min., 🌊 West Coast premiere
- 😁 So Be It, dir. Matthew Sorgie, 2026, USA/Canada, 8 min., 🌎 North American premiere
- ❓ Too Disgusting to Be Confused, dir. Maya Avidov, 2025, UK, 13 min., 🌎 North American premiere
The films may be screened in a different order than listed here.
🤩 Communion (Comunhão), dir. Pétala Lopes, 2026, Brazil, 24 min., in Portuguese with subtitles 🇺🇳 International premiere
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| Communion (Comunhão) |
Frameline blurb: Lesbian friends over 50 travel together and, away from the world’s gaze, celebrate their friendship, their desire, and their freedom. Over the weekend, they fully experience the richness of a reality they already carry within themselves, strengthening the bonds that unite them.
A sizeable group of lesbian friends rent out a place for a getaway. They all have a wonderful time, with infectious laughter and high spirits, and also talk openly (including the spicy bits!) about their lives. It’s a delightful celebration, definitely a must see.
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❓ Cruising Lesbiana, dir. Joyce Victoria Newrzella, 2026, Spain, 18 min., in Catalan and Spanish with subtitles; not available for advance review
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| Cruising Lesbiana |
Frameline blurb: Select characters from Barcelona's flinta community sit in a driving car and and talk about cruising, desire and different forms of spaces. Rough HDV material and selected images draw on the city of Barcelona and a fictional narrative of a cab driver who explores various forms of cruising areas, creating an experimental docu-fiction narrative.
(I will add this review if I get the chance to see the film.)
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😁 Here, Queer, and On TV, dir. Cassandra Herrman & Kelly Whalen, 2026, USA, 16 min. • 🌐 World premiere
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| Here, Queer, and On TV (Lavender Lounge doc) |
Frameline blurb: Before YouTube, Lavender Lounge lit up public access TV with a ’90s queer and trans dance party and groundbreaking show, capturing San Francisco’s first Dyke March and the first official Pride video. Thirty years later, creator Mark Kliem brings rare footage to light, reuniting the original crew with younger generations when queer history is again under attack.
I never saw Lavender Lounge when it was on PATV, around the time I started going to Frameline. I’m not sure why I never tuned in; I guess I didn’t hear about it, especially since I didn’t move to SF proper until 1995, near the end of its run. However, Here, Queer, and On TV is a fabulous stroll down memory lane for anyone who lived through that area, even if you didn’t watch the show. Highly recommended.
• IMDb: directors: Herrman Whalen • Official website • Filmmaker • Instagram • Facebook • preview • other •
😁 Making It Fit, dir. Mariana Leal, 2026, UK, 5 min. • 🌎 North American premiere
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| Making It Fit |
Frameline blurb: Making It Fit is a short animated documentary reflecting on the experience of death and mourning in the LGBTQ+ community, and the ways that navigating tradition, grief, and family often necessitates reinvention of funerary and remembrance rituals. Looking at some of the issues the current prevalent practices in Euro-American countries raise when it comes to mourning, this film will share some of the ways in which the members of the Queer community have been instinctively reinventing their grieving and celebration ceremonies for their late loved ones.
How can we queer our rituals around death? How do we deal with the many ways that the broader society doesn’t take account of the needs of queer people to grieve in our own style? It’s an interesting topic, worth seeing, highly recommended.
• IMDb: (possibly) director? or maybe director? • Official website • Filmmaker • Instagram • Facebook • preview • other •
👎 Oh Paulo, dir. Cam Archer, 2025, USA, 17 min. • 🌊 West Coast premiere
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| Oh Paulo |
Frameline blurb: After failing to capture a boy named Paulo with his camera, filmmaker Cam Archer (Wild Tigers I Have Known, Frameline30) reflects on recent shoots, what's missing, and what he can't seem to stop photographing. Driven by Archer's casual, confessional narration, Oh Paulo is an unflinching portrait of a middle-aged artist — haunted, yet still looking for more.
Seventeen minutes of self-indulgent navel gazing with a rambling narrative that never captures the interest of anyone but the narrator. Not horrible, just boring. Not recommended.
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😁 So Be It, dir. Matthew Sorgie, 2026, USA/Canada, 8 min. • 🌎 North American premiere
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| So Be It |
Frameline blurb: This animated documentary offers a rare and tender portrait of lifelong queer love by sharing the candid, heartfelt stories of five LGBTQIA+ couples.
Nicely done, with real affection for the subjects, who opened their thoughts and their hearts about life and love. Highly recommended.
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❓ Too Disgusting to Be Confused, dir. Maya Avidov, 2025, UK, 13 min. •
🌎 North American premiere
(review not yet available due to technical difficulties; check back later)
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| Too Disgusting to Be Confused |
Frameline blurb: Founded in 1972 by sculptor Andrew Logan, The Alternative Miss World is a celebration of transformation and unorthodox beauty. Starting as makeshift private parties held in his artist studio in an old jigsaw factory, the event married the Miss World competition with Crufts dog show, all with a sense of joy and humour. An instant smash hit, early judges and competitors included cultural legends like David Hockney, Derek Jarman, Zandra Rhodes, and Leigh Bowery. 1978 saw them take the party public, hiring a big-top tent on Clapham Common for a circus themed extravaganza, hosted by drag icon Divine. A film about the night premiered at Cannes in 1980, and was meant to make its London debut on the same evening as the Miss World event. However there was an attempt to scupper this homecoming when later that year they found themselves in The Royal Court of Justice, being sued by Miss World and represented by a trainee barrister by the name of Tony Blair.
(review not yet available due to technical difficulties; check back later)
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