Frameline 31.

The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through June 24, often goes by two names - that full-blown mouthful or, more simply, Frameline plus the number of the edition, in this year's case, 31.

Johnny Ray Huston opens the San Francisco Bay Guardian's cover package with a brief take on The Witnesses (Les Temoins): "Choosing [Andre] Techine's intimate Paris-set look at love under siege at the beginning of the AIDS crisis as its opening-night film, the Frameline fest. acknowledges its maturity. While LGBT identity might be thriving in the marketplace, The Witnesses does the hard work of looking back. Did gay culture almost die in the 80s?". Posted by: dwhudson    Source