Peter Wong

Dolls have been one method used in the past to talk about personal trauma when the victim has trouble finding the words. Tim Odonnell and Sam Oldmeadow’s touching documentary “The Last Yztari” shows how AI can be used as a tool for good by its trauma victim central subject. Until 2007, film subject Mary […]

Explore Summer 2026 at BAMPFA: Bold Film Programming Including Frameline50 and Provocative Cinema That Challenges Audiences.

From Tony Benna’s acclaimed documentary Andre Is an Idiot to queer cult classics, Irish hip-hop, Turkish street cats, and zombie drag queens, here’s what’s worth adding to your watchlist this month.

How can claims of so-called “protection of children” be a mask for animus against a highly disliked minority? Gianna Toboni’s documentary “Just Kids” offers an infuriating example. In one scene, South Carolina State House Representative John McCravy introduces in the state legislature’s Health Committee a bill banning gender-affirming care for people under 18, claiming the […]

Frameline turns 50 with drag legends, queer cinema icons, documentaries, horror, retrospectives, and enough beautifully unruly films to make San Francisco proud.

Kai Stanicke’s Teddy Jury Award-winning drama “Trial Of Hein” provides enough specificity to suggest it’s a 19th century-ish tale. Yet the way the story of this year’s winner of Frameline’s Out In The Silence award gets told gives it the timelessness of the Bertolt Brecht classic “Mother Courage And Her Children.”. Like the Thirty […]

Jane Schoenbrum’s “Teenage Sex And Death At Camp Miasma” wonderfully queers up the slasher film, that most violently erotophobic of film genres. The genre’s brutal excesses get ridiculed with oil gusher deaths and clever shots subtracting the fictional film monster’s power. Stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson gamely support Schoenbrum’s entertaining inversion of the slasher […]

A mix of prestige TV, cult cinema, animation, kaiju, and offbeat discoveries

One of the highlights of 1980s and 1990s zine culture was an unusual publication called “The Duplex Planet.” The old people who appeared in the publication contributed original poetry, art, or even their answers to such questions as “Who invented sitting down?” The zine would gain such fans as REM frontman Michael Stipe, cartoonist Dan […]

SFJFF's 46th edition runs July 16–August 2 with 65 films from 17 countries — bar mitzvah dramas, Sea Monkey lawsuits, Gaza field hospitals, and a doc that'll ruin "Dirty Dancing" for you forever.