A middle-aged museum guard locks eyes with a sexy young visitor, igniting a series of fantastical tableaux that wittily riff on race, sexual power dynamics, art history, gold lamé briefs, and Tom of Finland.

A poetic story of growth, death, and the choices that define us, The Business of Fancydancing reunites Spokane Reservation friends Aristotle Joseph and Seymour Polatkin sixteen years after their high school graduation.

When a guy's reflection escapes from his mirror, he gains a whole new perspective on his concerns about his appearance.

The underpaid “radical pervert” staff of a seedy hotel rises up in revolt, and by the time head elevator girl Maxine starts spouting union songs – “dump the bosses off your back!” – and Marxist maxims, you’ll be ready to join the cause of Elevator Girls in Bondage.

Hush!, the latest feature from Japanese director Ryosuke Hashiguchi, opens with a scene that will seem all-too-familiar to many members of the Frameline audience: a naked man wakes up in a stranger's bed, searches the cluttered floor for the clothes he carelessly discarded the night before, and tries to make a quick exit before his host wakes up.

Sam Zolten's groundbreaking documentary follows Kade Farlow Collins, a sixteen year old transgender person residing in Tucson, Arizona in the early 2000s.

Many versions of the Carmen story have been told over the years, but when Karmen Geï debuted at Frameline26 in 2002, no one had ever experienced anything quite like its explosive mix of West African drums,...

The subtle emotion and rich, quiet beauty of his newest film reach depths rarely seen in contemporary love stories. It is a tale of two men's lives and of a powerful relationship that is strengthened, torn apart, and stretched again and again through a decade of intimacy, chaos, loss, confusion and passion.

Looking for Langston is a lyrical exploration — and recreation — of the private world of poet, novelist and playwright Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) and his fellow black artists from the Harlem Renaissance.

Luster is a twisted LA comedy about unrequited love, featuring Jackson, a poet, who struggles with his crush on Billy, Derek, Sam, Jed, and his lesbian friend.

Notorious C.H.O., filmed live at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, cap­tures comedian Margaret Cho's recent 37-city tour, which ended with a career triumph at Carnegie Hall.

A fairly close remake with considerable fascination of its own, Laura Nix's debut feature The Politics of Fur resets Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1973 lesbian grand guignol The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant in the contempo L.A. music biz.

This is the life of Roberta, a secretary who is laid off from her job and is diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor on the same day. Alone on her last night on Earth, she phones Kevin, a bisexual hustler who advertises that “freaks” are his specialty.

Director Isaac Julien delivers an impressionistic antidote to the passionless, guilt-ridden AIDS awareness campaign conducted in Great Britain in 1987. This is Not an AIDS Advertisement blends an imaginative video style with strong political messages.

Tom Chomont's life unfurls in a style as unique as his own story. Found footage and archival film, home movies, photos and new video "stream past in a hypnot­ic rush, offering a subject whose skin is cinema, whose flesh and blood have been remade into the picture plane."

Tricia’s Wedding is the world-famous Cockettes’ irreverent reenactment of First Daughter Tricia Nixon’s nuptials to Edward Cox on June 11, 1971.

A film journey through a universe of female masculinity. A legendary Drag King Night in New York is the point of departure for an odyssey to transgendered worlds, where women become men — some for a night, others for their whole lives.

Michael, at his beach-home in Australia, is avoiding phone calls regarding his dear lifelong friend and former lover of two-years Chris who is dying back in Boston, America. While trying to write, he is disturbed by the noisy surfers next door as they get ready for a weekend away of surf...

Frameline Award winner Isaac Julien mixes the politics and drama with 70s hits that will have you dancing in your seat as this breakthrough film — which won the 1991 Critics' Week prize at Cannes and is as exciting as ever today — heads toward its fiery climax.