Overview
- Frameline’s 50th edition opens as an 11-day program presenting more than 140 films from roughly 35 countries at venues across the Bay Area, including the Castro, Roxie, Vogue and BAMPFA.
- The festival’s centerpiece slate includes opening-night feature Lady Champagne, the documentary Barbara Forever about filmmaker Barbara Hammer, and closing-night film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, plus an appearance by Colman Domingo.
- Neon’s Leviticus screens in a Frameline presentation at the Roxie and is being positioned alongside the festival run for a wider theatrical release, while Sony Pictures Classics’ Unidentified is set to open at the Smith Rafael Film Center.
- Complementary local programming overlaps with Frameline50: the San Francisco Black Film Festival stages its annual edition at the African American Art and Culture Complex and other neighborhood sites, and the Stanford Theatre is running a Marilyn Monroe tribute series through the summer.
- Frameline50’s 50th anniversary reinforces the festival-to-theatre pipeline and the role of refurbished cultural anchors like the Castro Theatre in bringing queer, trans, Black and international stories to community audiences.