Frameline 49, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, is a celebration of queer culture featuring over 150 films from around the world, including documentaries, comedies, and dramas, and a portion of the festival will be available for streaming from June 23-30, 2025.

San Francisco Mime Troupe’s 66th season will run from July 4 to August 3, 2025, with the show “Disruption – a Musical Farce” taking a satirical look at the Silicon Valley ethos and the struggles of the working class in San Francisco.

A veteran tour guide gives us the hidden trails, different seasons, and forgotten secrets on the Rock.

Netflix offers a variety of new releases and classic films this month, including documentaries on Pharrell Williams and the Grenfell Tower fire, a Swedish heist drama, an adaptation of Jane Harper’s novel, and Alfred Hitchcock classics.

The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive is celebrating Robert Altman’s 100th birthday with a film series featuring his classics, while also offering a documentary about Vivien Hillgrove, a Swedish Cinema Project, and a screening of Ingmar Bergman’s “Smiles Of A Summer Night”.

Hulu’s highlights this month include queer-friendly films like “Boy Meets Girl” and “National Anthem”, as well as new seasons of “Yuri!!! On Ice” and “The 1% Club”, and a range of other offerings that include “Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid”, “The Namesake”, “And Then We Danced”, “Call Her Alex”, and “My Happy Ending”.

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival 2025 will feature 85 films from around the world, including documentaries on feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, disability issues, drag culture, and social justice, as well as a feature on Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein leader who played a key role in ending The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

May is still Asian-American Pacific Heritage Month despite the Orange Domestic Terrorist’s efforts to wipe the celebration from public memory.  While the better films and tv series on Hulu this month come from Japan and South Korea and don’t feature Asian-American talent, at least their existence shows that Asian pop

Netflix’s May lineup offers a variety of new and returning shows, including reimaginings of Judy Blume classics, a restoration of Spielberg’s first feature film, and new seasons of an animated science fiction/horror anthology.