Roxie Theater

Predictably unpredictable, the festival’s 95-film lineup comprises names big, small and overall niche. This year, deputy arts editor Dominic Marziali and arts reporters Maida Suta, Emma Murphree and Piper Samuels covered the festival online and in person.

Now, keep this current events theme rolling on Tuesday — remember the global climate strike last week? Express your appreciation for this Earth of ours at Roxie Theater at 6 p.m. with a screening of “Moananuiākea: One Ocean. One People. One Canoe.”

Since 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, or SFTFF, has shined as a beacon of light from within the various locations that have hosted it. Its more than two decades of history are a source of pride for its organizers, filmmakers and patrons.

Conceived in 2006 and named for San Francisco’s notoriously chilly summers, SFFFF defines itself as “an independent grassroots movement.”

If you’ve taken all my advice, you will be thoroughly fried from all your nights out and will probably be in need of a night in.

At the premiere of his film for Frameline’s San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, Francis Lee emphasized that Yorkshire is a place that is dearly personal to him.

The film brilliantly sifts through two decades’ worth of documentation that plays a vital role in revealing something profound about both Huang and her mother.

As queer representation in media is few and far between, there exists a dearth in particular of representation for queer women of color — yet “Brown Girls” does not exist solely to fill this gap.

While “Extra Terrestres” could use another pass through the editing booth for some trimming and tightening — and should have featured Daniela’s character more wholeheartedly — the film accomplishes its most important task: emphasizing the difficulties of being authentic around family and the joy that can result from opening up.