Film

CAAMFest 2023 is proud to announce a slew of LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and films that explore their multifaceted stories. The diverse themes of the films showcase the complexities of identity, grief, family, friendship, and romance. We also have music and food programming that highlights queer individuals that bring their talent either through tunes or culinary tastings! CAAMFest 2023 will take place May 11-21, 2023, encompassing programs that celebrate Asian and Asian American stories. All programming along with LGBTQIA+ filmmakers and films on the LGBTQIA+ experience are listed below. Films on the LGBTQIA+ Experience All I Ever Wanted, directed by Erin LauPart […]

Frameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, returns for a 47th edition June 14-24, 2023. These dates include starting one day earlier than usual, on a Wednesday, and ending one day earlier, on Pride Saturday. The in-person festival is followed by a Streaming Encore, June 14–July 2, where the majority of the festival program will be available to view online from anywhere in the US.   Frameline is the world’s largest and longest running LGBTQ+ film festival, and is expected to be the highest attended film festival in the Bay Area in 2023.    Frameline47 will include 90 screenings across San […]

Sonoma County student short films for the 15th annual student film festival to be held on Friday, March 31st, 2023, at 6:00 pm. Select films will be shown to the public and will be followed by a Q & A.  The Sonoma County Student Film Festival was initiated 15 years ago by the Student Government President, Amanda Swan, and launched at SRJC Petaluma. The Sonoma County Film Festival (SCSFF) encourages students to build academic and professional connections with their peers and community. The goal of the event is to connect and introduce student filmmakers within the community to our own […]

Enter The Beauty Bubble Salon & Museum, a pastel dreamland of 3,000 vintage beauty artifacts in the desert community of Joshua Tree, California and meet its owner, proprietor, and “America’s hairstorian” Jeff Hafler. Inside The Beauty Bubble chronicles Hafler’s struggle to keep his roadside attraction afloat during a remarkable year that changed his life and those of his husband and son. In doing so, the film tells a story of family, fabulous-fness and folk art, and provides a reminder that sometimes strong people on the margins hold a community together. Awards Audience Award – Dances with Films ● Heart of […]

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. READ THE REVIEW HERE: https://thequeerreview.com/2023/01/10/film-review-all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed-neon/#more-101728

CloseOpens Friday, February 24thMultiple Showings a Day Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival “Close” centers on two inseparable 13-year-old boys who find their bond tested with the start of a new school year. When the film opens, the best friends, Leo and Remi, live an idyllic existence, spending afternoons biking between each other’s homes and nights whispering under the covers. But those halcyon summer days soon come to an end when the new term begins and a group of unfamiliar classmates begin to question their closeness.

Cinema might have progressed beyond burying its gays but that doesn’t mean it can’t assign them a fate worse than death – lifelong pining. This is so prevalent in culture that it has its own term: queer yearning, an achey, all-consuming desire in which years of repression spill forth into a crush so forbidden, so unquenchable, that the only way to relieve its pains is by penetrating a peach.Hurtling into this lineage is the Macedonian-Australian film-maker Goran Stolevski’s Of an Age, a pinwheeling, decade-spanning odyssey of teenage kicks and their prolonged aftershocks. And I mean hurtling: from the off, Stolevski’s direction possesses the […]