Frameline50 and QWOCFF 2026: index and cross-reference

Frameline50 San Francisco
Int’l LGBTQ+ Film Festival:
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Int’l Queer Women of Color Film Festival:
We Resist and We Roll #WRaWR
June 12–14, 2026 + online encore Sept. 1–11

About this Index (click to expand)

In the fabulous 50th run of the Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which returned this year to the newly renovated Castro Theatre, I saw 46 (out of 63) new feature-length films, 49 (out of 58) new short films, 4 (out of 10) retro features, and 29 (out of 33) retro shorts, for a total of 128 (out of 164) films. All of that is on top of the Queer Women of Color Film Festival (QWOCFF), held annually the weekend before Frameline begins. This year featured 1 retro feature-length documentary and 6 shorts programs totalling 33 short films (3 of which I had seen previously). Here they are, sorted by category.

The 🔞 symbol indicates a film or program not suitable for younger audiences; a shorts program is so marked if the substantial majority of its short films are for adults only, but there are a couple of adult shorts that were tucked into programs that mostly do not merit that categorization, so be sure to check the individual listings. “Retro” films dated 2022 or earlier are marked with the year in brackets after the title. Films with foreign-language titles are listed separately by both the original title and the English title, except where they would be listed consecutively. A couple of short films ran in more than one shorts program.

Frameline narrative features:

🔞😁🌎 A Paixão Segundo G.H.B. (The Passion According to G.H.B.)
😀📀 À voix basse (In a Whisper) (بيّت الحسّ) (في همسة)
🤩🌊 At the Place of Ghosts (Skɨte'kmujue'katik)
🤩🌐 Before I Do
🤩🌉 Black Burns Fast
😀 Bookends
😁🌉 Des preuves d’amour (Love Letters)
🔞😑 Dog Movie
🤩🌐 Downtown
🔞🙂 Dreamboi
🙂📀 Drunken Noodles
😁📀 En el camino (On the Road)
😁 Enzo
🤩🌊 Ephemera (浮浮游游)
😁🎦📀 Estrany Riu (Strange River)
🌐🤩 The Faggots and Their Friends Between the Revolutions
🤩🇺🇸 Feito Pipa (Gugu’s World)
😁🎦 Girls Like Girls
🤩🇺🇸 Gugu’s World (Feito Pipa)
😁🌉🏆📀 Der Heimatlose (Trial of Hein)
🔞😁🌉 I Want Your Sex
😀📀 In a Whisper (À voix basse) (بيّت الحسّ) (في همسة)
🤩🇺🇳⚠️🔞 Invisible Boys [episodic]
😁🌊 Lady Champagne
🤩⚠️🌉🏆🎦 Leviticus
😁🌉 Love Letters (Des preuves d’amour)
😁🌉🎦 Maddie’s Secret
🤩🌊 Madfabulous
🌊👍 Maspalomas
🌊😁 Montréal, ma belle (Montreal, My Beautiful)
😁📀 On the Road (En el camino)
🫤 On the Sea
🙂🌐 Our Effed Up World
🔞😁🌎 The Passion According to G.H.B. (A Paixão Segundo G.H.B.)
🤩 Skiff
🤩🌊 Skɨte'kmujue'katik (At the Place of Ghosts)
🙂🌊 Something You Should Know About Me
😀🌊 Sparks
😁🎦📀 Strange River (Estrany Riu)
😀⚠️🌊🏆🎦 Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma
😁🌉🏆📀 Trial of Hein (Der Heimatlose)
😀📀 À voix basse (In a Whisper) (بيّت الحسّ) (في همسة)
😁 Where in the Hell [not Frameline]
😀📀 بيّت الحسّ (In a Whisper) (À voix basse) (في همسة)
😀📀 في همسة (À voix basse) (In a Whisper) (بيّت الحسّ)
🤩🌊 (浮浮游游) (Ephemera)

Frameline feature-length documentaries:

🤩 10s Across the Borders [documentary]
🤩🌊 Acting Like Women [documentary]
🤩💖 Adam’s Apple [documentary]
🔞😁🌉🏆 Barbara Forever [documentary]
😁🌉 Celebrating Laughter: The Life and Films of Colin Higgins [documentary]
🤩💖 The Dads [2026 documentary]
😁🌐 The Hockey Player [documentary]
😁🌊 Hunky Jesus [documentary]
😁 Jaripeo [documentary]
🤩📀 Julian [documentary re-enactment]
🙂🌎 La belle année
🤩📺 Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World [documentary]
🔞😁🌎 Mickey & Richard [documentary]
🤩🌉 Public Access [documentary]
🔞🙂 Puppygirl [documentary]
😁🌊 Time Warp [2026 documentary]
🤩💖💝 Tomorrow’s Too Late [documentary]
😁🌊 Uncle Roy [documentary]

Frameline features I missed:

Antidiva: The Carole Pope Confessions [documentary]
The Brittney Griner Story [documentary]
CAMP
Castration Movie Chapter iii. Junior Ghosts—Premorphic Drift; a fragmentary passage
Fire Within [documentary]
Gamechangers: The Ashlyn Harris Story [documentary]
Give Me the Ball [documentary]
Iván & Hadoum
Labrador — Autopsy of Silence
The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel
Loves Company
Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders [documentary]
On sera heureux (We’ll Find Happiness)
Rock Out [documentary]
A Safe Distance
A Taste of Heaven: The Ecstatic Song & Gospel of Maestro Raymond Anthony Myles
Test
We’ll Find Happiness (On sera heureux)
Bound [1996]
Cruising [1980]
Desert Hearts [1985]
Jason & Shirley Revisited [2016]
Macho Dancer [1988]
Score [1973]
Still Black: A Portrait of Black Transmen [2008 documentary]

Frameline shorts programs:

“99¢ Queer Video Fest”
“Afternoon Delight”
“Doc Shorts”
“ Frameline from the Beginning: It’s All Coming Back to Me Now”
“Fun in Shorts”
“A Good Long Cry”
“Homegrown”
“Meet Me at the Crossroads”
🔞 “Nineties & Zeros Fucks: Sexy Frameline Shorts”
🔞 “Objectionable Content: Banned Retro Shorts”
“A Tale of Two Dogs: A Henry Hanson Double Feature”
“Trans New Weird”
“We Belong Together (Except When We Don’t)”

Frameline short films:

🙂🇺🇸 3XMina (Three Times Mina) (“A Good Long Cry”)
🤩 575 Castro St. [2008] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
😁 976– [1987] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
😁🌊 All Change (Before I Do)
🔞😁 All You Can Eat (“Nineties & Zeros”)
😁 Altered Habits [1981] (“Frameline from the Beginning”)
🙂🌉 Artifice (“Trans New Weird”)
😀 B-Girls from Planet Q [1991] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩 Babaylan (“Homegrown”)
😁🤪🌉 The Beach Boys (“Trans New Weird”)
😁🇺🇸 Big Boys Don’t Cry (“A Good Long Cry”)
🤩🌎 Black Shawl (Czarna chusta) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🙂 Body [1992] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩 Brother to Brother: An Excerpt from Tongues Untied [1989] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🔞👎 Built for Endurance [1993] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩 Callback (“Homegrown”)
👎 Un chant d’amour [1950] (“Objectionable Content”)
🙂 Chickula: Teenage Vampire [1994] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
😁 Choked (“Trans New Weird”)
🤩🇺🇳 Communion (Comunhão) (“Doc Shorts”)
🙂 Cunt Dykula [1993] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩🌎 Czarna chusta (Black Shawl) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
😁🌊 Dr. Poppers (“Afternoon Delight”)
🔞😑 Dog Movie (“A Tale of Two Dogs”)
🙂🇺🇳 Doug + Me (Uncle Roy)
🔞🤩 Dyketactics [1974] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🙂 The Emancipation of Mimi (Gugu’s World)
🔞👎 Fireworks [1947] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🙂🇺🇸 First Death (“We Belong Together”)
🔞🚨💩🚨💩🚨 Flaming Creatures [1963] (“Objectionable Content”)
🤩🌐 Flores de Verão (Wildflowers) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🤩 Frameline Trailer Compilation [1990-2025] (“Frameline from the Beginning”)
🙂 Friendly [1993] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🙂 Girls Will Be Boys [1993] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩 Greetings from Washington, D.C. [1981] (“Frameline from the Beginning”)
😁🌐 Here, Queer, and On TV (“Doc Shorts”)
🤩🌉 How to Find a Career That Loves You Back (“Homegrown”)
😁🇺🇳 I Am the Prize (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🤩 if you know you know (iykyk) (“Trans New Weird”)
🙂 Ifé [1993] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
👎🌎 Infinity Mirror (“Homegrown”)
😀 Inside the Archive: In Conversation with Derek Jarman [documentary] (Caravaggio)
🤩 iykyk: if you know you know (“Trans New Weird”)
🤩 Kiloran Bay (“We Belong Together”)
🙂🌉 The Long Con (“We Belong Together”)
😁🌎 Making It Fit (“Doc Shorts”)
🔞😐 Matzo Maidels (“Nineties & Zeros”)
😁🌉 Minister Chucky [documentary] (“Fun in Shorts”)
😁🌉 Mồ Hôi (Sweat) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🤩🌐 Morfeu e Caronte (Morpheus and Charon) (“Afternoon Delight”)
😁🌉 The Motive (“Homegrown”)
🔞😁🌎 La moto (The Motorcycle) (“Afternoon Delight”)
👎🌊 My Structuralist Film (“Trans New Weird”)
🤩🌉🏆 Never Never Never (“We Belong Together”)
😁🇺🇸 Notice Me (“We Belong Together”)
👎🌊 Oh Paulo (“Doc Shorts”)
🔞😁 Phineas Slipped (“Nineties & Zeros”)
🔞🙂 Puppygirl (“A Tale of Two Dogs”)
😁 Shaving the Castro [1994] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🤩 Shutterspeed (“A Good Long Cry”)
🔞👎 Skullfuck [1991] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
😁🌉 Sleazy Tiger (“Fun in Shorts”)
👹👎 Smooth (“Trans New Weird”)
😁🌎 So Be It (“Doc Shorts”)
🤩 Song from an Angel [1988] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
😁 Stafford’s Story (“Nineties & Zeros”)
😐🌉 Static (“We Belong Together”)
🤩 Sunday Lunch (“Fun in Shorts”)
🤩 Sunday Sauce (“Fun in Shorts”)
🙂 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story [1987] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”) (“Objectionable Content”)
😁🌉 Sweat (Mồ Hôi) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🔞🙂🌉 Talk Me (“Afternoon Delight”)
😁🌊 Taxi Moto (“A Good Long Cry”)
🙂🇺🇸 Three Times Mina (3XMina) (“A Good Long Cry”)
😁 Vanilla Sex [1992] (“99¢ Queer Video Fest”)
🔞🙂🌎 Vibrations (“Mickey & Richard”)
🙂🌐 The Waddles (“Fun in Shorts”)
🔞😁 Who’s the Top (“Nineties & Zeros”)
😁🌐 Wife Wife (“Fun in Shorts”)
🤩🌐 Wildflowers (Flores de Verão) (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🤩🇺🇸 Yellow Bucket (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
🤩 Zeitgeist 1977: The First Festival [2016] (“Frameline from the Beginning”) (“Homegrown”)

Frameline shorts I missed:

❓🌐 But Still, We Move (“Meet Me at the Crossroads”)
❓ Cruising Lesbiana (“Doc Shorts”)
❓🇺🇸 A Cúpula dos Prazeres (The Pleasure Dome) (“Afternoon Delight”)
❓ Dreams of Passion [1989] (La belle année)
❓🌐 Femme Release (“Homegrown”)
❓🌎 Flight Risk (“Fun in Shorts”)
🔞❓ Forever Bottom! (“Nineties & Zeros”)
🔞❓ Impact Zone (“Nineties & Zeros”)
🔞❓ Law & Order (“Nineties & Zeros”)
❓🌉 Method Cowboy (“We Belong Together”)
❓🇺🇸 The Pleasure Dome (A Cúpula dos Prazeres) (“Afternoon Delight”)
🔞❓Pussy Buffet (“Nineties & Zeros”)
❓ Spin Cyle [1991] (La belle année)
❓🌎 Too Disgusting to be Confused (“Doc Shorts”)

Queer Women of Color Film Festival:

🤩 A Litany for Survival [1995, 4K restoration, Featured Screening] (feature-length documentary)
“Break Shit!” (centerpiece shorts program)
“Desire & Defiance” (centerpiece shorts program)
“Land and Resistance” (featured shorts program)
“Queer Asian Spirit” (closing night shorts program)
“Queer Black Joy Like Fire” (opening night shorts program)
“Queer Families Belong” (centerpiece shorts program)
😀 2 de copas (2 of Hearts) (“Desire & Defiance”)
😁 At Home (“Queer Families Belong”)
😁 August and Ebony (“Queer Families Belong”)
😁 autism is an altar [personal essay] (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
😁 Between Us [documentary] (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
😁 Black Tea (“Desire & Defiance”)
😁 Breaking It All (Tout casser) (“Break Shit!”)
🙂 Budget Paradise [also screened in FL49] (“Queer Black Joy Like Fire”)
🤣 Cockroach (“Desire & Defiance”)
🤩 Damn Y’all Fine (“Queer Black Joy Like Fire”)
🤩 Deneege Leł Ghu Kk’ots’eedeneeyh Te Heł Hoozoonh Ts’e Denots’edeneeyh (“Land and Resistance”)
🤩 Đồng Quể: Of the Same Womb (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
🙂 Edges of the Earth (“Desire & Defiance”)
😁 Enjoy the View (“Queer Families Belong”)
😁 Flores del corazón (“Break Shit!”)
😁 Flow (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
🤩 Hannah Mayree: Songs of Reclamation (“Queer Black Joy Like Fire”)
😁 Home Visit (“Queer Families Belong”)
😁 If Only You Knew (“Queer Families Belong”)
🙂 Leo Lets It Rain (“Break Shit!”)
😁 Letters to Nowhere (“Desire & Defiance”)
😁 Never Stand Down: The Quraishi Family (“Queer Families Belong”)
🤩 Đồng Quể: Of the Same Womb (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
😁 Pink Oz’s (“Desire & Defiance”)
🤩 ¡Quba! (“Land and Resistance”)
🙂 Rainbow Girls [also screened in FL49] (“Queer Black Joy Like Fire”)
😁 The Second Spring (“Break Shit!”)
🤩 Standing Tree (“Land and Resistance”)
🤩 Superfan No. 1 (“Queer Asian Spirit”)
😁 Tending To (“Break Shit!”)
😁 Tout casser (Breaking It All) (“Break Shit!”)
😵‍💫 Waste Time: A Complicated Love Story (“Desire & Defiance”)
😁🌐 Watermelon in Wintertime (“Break Shit!”)
🙂 Wheels & Roses (“Break Shit!”)
🤩 Yu & Me [documentary] (“Queer Asian Spirit”)

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