Frameline

Frameline Frameline’s mission is to change the world through the power of queer cinema.

As a media arts non-profit, Frameline’s programs connect filmmakers and audiences in San Francisco and around the world. Founded in 1977, Frameline is the nation's only nonprofit organization solely dedicated to the funding, exhibition, distribution and promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender media arts.

Rocking into 50 with and 💪🏼💅So honored to be presenting Coleman Domingo with the Variety Creative Conscience Award. Ma...
05/06/2026

Rocking into 50 with and 💪🏼💅

So honored to be presenting Coleman Domingo with the Variety Creative Conscience Award. Mark your calendars for his conversation at The Castro on June 19th. Tickets on sale next week!

05/04/2026

Day in the life!

Prepping HARD for Frameline50!!

Just got the keys to our festival hub… Guess where?????
05/02/2026

Just got the keys to our festival hub… Guess where?????

Uh oh! Our secret is out! Frameline is going all in on SF!We are excited to announced three of our major Festival screen...
04/28/2026

Uh oh! Our secret is out! Frameline is going all in on SF!

We are excited to announced three of our major Festival screenings — including Opening Night, Centerpiece, and Pride Kickoff films — all of which are 2026 Frameline Completion Fund grantees with deep ties to San Francisco’s LGBTQ+ community and q***r filmmaking legacy!

Snag your tickets to these early releases before they are gone! Link in our bio!

Frameline is proud to present the grantees for this years Collin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant!“This year’s Colin Higgin...
04/22/2026

Frameline is proud to present the grantees for this years Collin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grant!

“This year’s Colin Higgins Youth Filmmaker Grantees and their exceptional films are a reminder that q***r cinema needs all of our voices, all of our stories, to keep building a more empathetic, rounded world,”-Allegra Madsen

Each film team will receive $15,000 to support their future film projects and will be screened during various shorts blocks at this year’s fest! Mark your calendars for June 17–27 to catch the future of filmmaking!!

💥 Guess who’s got YOUR back, q***r fam? 💥 Frameline is proud to partner with to bring you all the latest in q***r enter...
04/21/2026

💥 Guess who’s got YOUR back, q***r fam? 💥

Frameline is proud to partner with to bring you all the latest in q***r entertainment, news, style, travel, nightlife, and everything fabulous in between! 🌈 ✨ 21 years strong, EDGE has served the q***r community like no one else! , EVERYWHERE you go. 🏳️‍🌈🔥 Tap the link in our bio for the full 411. 🖤 ***rMedia

Come celebrate le***an visibility week at the Roxie this Sunday!!Le****ns didn’t always get to see themselves on screen,...
04/20/2026

Come celebrate le***an visibility week at the Roxie this Sunday!!

Le****ns didn’t always get to see themselves on screen, but between Stonewall, the feminist movement, and the experimental cinema of the 1970’s, they built visibility and transformed the social imagination about q***rness. Filmmakers Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Rose Troche, Cheryl Dunye, Yoruba Richen, Desiree Akhavan, Vicky Du, Jenni Olson, and film critic B. Ruby Rich, among many others, share moving — and often hilarious — stories from their lives to discuss how they’ve expressed q***r identity through film.

Stop by Mother and show your ticket for $1 off of drinks the day of the screening!

The first of our New Q***r Cinema x Trans New Weird double feature program is screening this Saturday!!! Who owns our i...
04/14/2026

The first of our New Q***r Cinema x Trans New Weird double feature program is screening this Saturday!!!

Who owns our image? Under late-stage capitalism, everything is property—from your shoes to your phone to your identity. So why not steal the classics? (You couldn’t save enough anyway.) Todd Haynes’ Poison (1991) and Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker (2022) twist the canon of beloved American narrative conventions into organisms that reflect defiant, new ways to represent q***r life.

Poison reimagines and recontextualizes three classic genres—the prison film, the monster film, and the broadcast news magazine—through a q***r lens. The People’s Joker reclaims the copyrighted characters of the Batman comics to redraw (and redraw, and redraw) a trans woman’s origin story as pop mythology. In an attempt to reclaim ownership of their images, these two films amount to a sum greater than their parts.

Intro by Gabi Grossman! Don’t miss it! Tickets in our bio!

Happy International Asexuality Day from Frameline!!
04/06/2026

Happy International Asexuality Day from Frameline!!

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145 9th Street Ste 300
San Francisco, CA
94103

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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