Around the Community: Frameline 48 SF International LGBTQ+ Film Festival
Let’s intersect at #Frameline48 June 19-29! Explore where unique expressions meet universal emotions with 11 days of world-renowned queer films, performances, and parties. Journey together across the intersections of LGBTQ+ identities and to theaters around the Bay Area. Discover more at frameline.org and @framelinefest
"Extremely Unique Dynamic" (6/22, @ 3:30pm - Vogue Theater)
In this gleeful buddy/stoner comedy, aspiring actors/childhood best friends Ryan and Danny are at a crossroads. It’s their last weekend together in LA before Ryan moves away, and the guys have very different ideas about how to enjoy this precious time. Danny wants to get high and relax, but ambitious, marketing-obsessed Ryan convinces him to immortalize their friendship by making an indie movie… about two friends making a movie… about two friends making a movie. When, while playing one of his many characters in the meta plot, Danny reveals a long-held secret, the pair must set aside the cameras and confront the deeper storyline of this moment in their lives and friendship.
"After the Snowmelt" (6/26, @ 3:30pm - Roxie Theater)
Both emotionally potent and cinematically striking, After the Snowmelt is a dazzling and unconventional documentary where a filmmaker explores their first experience of great loss after her best friends Chun and Yueh go missing. Trapped in a cave in Nepal for 47 days, Yueh survives. Chun does not. Yi-Shan offers an intimate window into the complex relationship of survivors as she traverses the intricate terrain of grief and gender with Yueh. Their conversations are steeped in themes of guilt, perseverance, and identity as they navigate Chun’s legacy with ease, even as elders around them fail to acknowledge their friend’s queerness/transness posthumously.