Thursday, June 20

Vita & Virginia: 7:00pm (Opening Night)
2018, 110 min

Sensational star turns by Elizabeth Debicki as Virginia Woolf and Gemma Arterton as Vita Sackville-West bring to dazzling, erotic life one of the great lesbian love affairs of the 20th century in this enchanting blend of literary biography and romantic intrigue—a shimmering costume drama that also features a strong supporting turn from Isabella Rossellini as Vita’s mother. As the two remarkably different novelists begin exploring each other’s minds and bodies, the relationship sparks a creative surge in Woolf, who uses her androgynous lover, Sackville-West, as the muse for one of her greatest novels, Orlando.

Fireflies: 10:00pm
2018, 87 min

Ramin is a lost soul, an Iranian man who has escaped persecution and wound up in the Mexican port of Veracruz. Though he pines for a boyfriend he left behind, he is drawn to Guillermo, an inscrutable ex-con with a body full of bullet holes. A sensitive portrait of a gay man in exile, Fireflies shows us a world where borders can’t always be crossed and our scars tell our stories.

Saturday, June 22

Fun in Boys Shorts: 11:00am
71 min

Check your blues at the door and get ready to smile! Come down to the Castro for Frameline’s annual celebration of lighthearted, flirty, goofy, upbeat, and maybe even touching short films—including dance breaks that will have you both bumping and rolling in the aisles.

Fun in Girls Shorts: 1:30pm
73 min

Come along for this gigglefest as we experience talking dogs, visits with the family, doll obsessions, bad hair, and magic tricks—seriously whatever it might take to impress a date. These fun and quirky tales are certain to answer most of your life questions.

Kinky Boots: The Musical: 4:00pm
2019, 124 min

Broadway babies and footwear fans rejoice! Come thrill to the world premiere screening of the rousing Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical, in this HD-cinema, live-captured performance from London’s Adelphi Theatre. With a book by Harvey Fierstein and original songs by Cyndi Lauper, the delightful Kinky Boots: The Musical stars original West End sensations Killian Donnelly as shoemaker scion Charlie and Matt Henry as Lola, the feisty drag queen who tries to save the factory with her fabulous fetish-y creations.

Benjamin: 7:00pm
2018, 85 min

In this uproarious comedy set in hipster London, an up-and-coming indie filmmaker feels the pressure to live up to his early-career promise as he scrambles to finish his (possibly very bad) second film—sending his self-confidence into a nosedive. But when awkward Benjamin (Colin Morgan) meets and falls for an enchanting French musician, he finds his insecurities may torpedo his one chance at happiness. Like its title character, Benjamin is funny, charming, and bittersweetly romantic.

Bit: 9:30pm
2019, 90 min

A summer vacation in LA quickly turns into a fight to survive for Laurel (Nicole Maines from TV’s Supergirl), a transgender teenage girl who falls in with a glamorous quartet of queer feminist vampires. Unsure if they want to kill her, eat her, or recruit her, Laurel skeptically tags along with the bloodsucking clique as they rid the streets of predatory men in this wickedly funny, gleefully gory, defiantly postmodern spin on a coming-of-age tale.

Tuesday, June 25

Queer Genius: 1:00pm
2019, 115 min

A deep, affectionate look at the life and work of five remarkable queer artists: the late, legendary filmmaker Barbara Hammer; the inimitable poet, Eileen Myles; Rasheedah Phillips & Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother) of the revelatory multimedia Black Quantum Futurism collective; and wildly innovative performance artist Jibz Cameron (aka Dynasty Handbag).

For They Know Not What They Do: 4:00pm
2019, 92 min

Picking up where his 2007 documentary For the Bible Tells Me So left off, director Daniel G. Karslake weaves the moving sagas of four devoutly religious families with gay or trans children. Inculcated for decades with homophobic dogmas and poisonous myths, parents and kids candidly recount their wrenching and transformative journeys of loss and love, judgment and acceptance, and tragedy and triumph.

Temblores (Tremors): 6:30pm (Centerpiece)
2019, 107 min

When confident, sophisticated Pablo reveals that he is going to leave his wife and children to live with the man he loves, his affluent evangelical family in Guatemala is ripped apart: soon Pablo’s conservative parents, wife, employer, pastor, and his entire world seem bent on reforming, “converting,” or destroying the errant man. Jayro Bustamante’s (Ixcanul) powerful drama is both one man’s wrenching story and a searing commentary on the impact that religious and social prejudice still wreaks on queer lives.

Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts: 9:15pm
2019, 91 min

Both funny and illuminating, this behind-the-scenes exposé of RuPaul’s Drag Race star and country music songstress, Trixie Mattel, offers a glimpse into the backstage drama of a drag superstar. Following Trixie through All Stars, a musical world tour, and the genesis of her Viceland series with Katya, Moving Parts showcases the glitz and glamour of fame as well as its pitfalls when you have a legion of fans watching your every move.

Saturday, June 29

To the Stars: 11:00am
2019, 111 min

In a small Oklahoma farm town in the 1960s, two teenage girls who never quite fit in, strike up a friendship that shocks the whole town and alters their lives forever. A Sundance favorite, beautifully shot in black-and-white, To the Stars gives the grand cinematic treatment to the coming-of-age stories of two young women who grapple with accepting themselves in a town that refuses to.

Guest Artist: 2:00pm
2019, 75 min

A misanthropic, gay, alcoholic New York City playwright (Jeff Daniels) descends upon a small town in Michigan to mount his new work but gets hung up at the train station when his driver, an aspiring writer, challenges his jaded outlook in this razor-sharp and moving adaptation of Daniels’ play. Over the course of a snowy Christmastime evening, the two generations face off, trading acerbic, witty dialogue while dissecting each other’s views on art and life.

Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street: 4:15pm
2019, 99 min

In 1985, Mark Patton landed the lead in the sequel to the blockbuster A Nightmare on Elm Street, thinking he had achieved his dream of becoming a movie star. Instead he found himself, a young closeted gay man, starring in a controversial, subversively queer film, that disappointed audiences and destroyed his career. Thirty years later, Patton comes out of seclusion to embrace the cult film and confront his own demons.

An Almost Ordinary Summer: 7:00pm
2019, 100 min

Two incompatible Italian families—one sophisticated, bohemian, and neurotic; the other narrow-minded and loud—are both equally stunned when their middle-aged dads announce that they are getting married…to each other. Can the genuine love between silver fox Tony and sensitive bear Carlo survive the scheming of their children to derail the nuptials? It’s La cage aux folles meets Mamma Mia! in this delightful and surprisingly touching Mediterranean charmer.

Last Ferry: 9:30pm
2019, 86 min

An introverted lawyer heads to Fire Island to let loose but gets much more than he bargained for when a casual encounter with a stranger leaves him drugged. In his impaired state, he finds himself the only witness to a shocking murder in the desolate Meat Rack and must figure out how to escape before the killer finds him in this mesmerizing gay thriller that’s full of twists and turns, shot on location in the Pines.