Here’s Everything Latino Playing at SF’s Frameline, The King of Queer Film Festivals
There’s a reason why San Francisco’s Frameline calls itself “the King of Queer Film Festivals.” The Bay Area fest, the largest LGBT film exhibition event in the world, is ringing in their fortieth year in style. Not only will they be showing the Looking film as their Closing Night Film — a fitting homecoming for the HBO show — but they’re kicking things off with the vibrant documentary Kiki — a fabulous look at the young POC-driven ballroom scene in New York. In other words, Frameline40 will begin and end with stories that speak to and about queer Latinos.
Thus, while you may want to seek out the wonderful gender-bending Swedish fantasy drama Girls Lost, the tearjerking Aussie AIDS film Holding the Man, and the Black Swan-esque Closet Monster among others, you most certainly don’t want to miss out on the bountiful crop of Latino and Latin American features and documentaries that the late June festival has to offer. (Not to mention the many short films being showcased.)
Whether you want to check out a French New Wave-inspired black and white gay-for-pay flick, a doc on the furry community, a backstage look at Madonna’s Blond Ambition backup dancers, or festival standouts like Desde allá, Te prometo anarquía, and Southwest of Salem, you’re sure to find something at Frameline40 that speaks to your interests. In the spirit of the diverse and welcoming community it hopes to embody, the fest is wonderfully inclusive. Knowing you’d need help figuring out what to be on the lookout for, Remezcla has you covered with a list of everything Latino in this year’s program.
San Francisco’s Frameline40 runs June 16 – 26, 2016.
