It's astonishing what the Frameline 41 programmers have packed into the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival's final four days, June 22-25.

The stunning new documentary about the life and times of iconic chanteuse and sexual outlaw Chavela Vargas will be screened twice at the Frameline film festival, with the award-winning lesbian directors answering questions afterwards.

The 41st edition of the nation's premier LGBTQ film festival unspools with a record number of films by and about women. Our picks for Frameline's first week follow.

The 41st edition of the nation's premier LGBTQ film festival unspools with a record number of films by and about women.

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) celebrates Pride through June by recalling the lives and works of actors and filmmakers who dared to be openly gay during Hollywood's Golden Age. Each Thursday in June, TCM presents "Gay Hollywood."

While the Frameline LGBTQ Film Festival takes 11 days of the Castro Theatre's June schedule, there's a lot to be said for the other week of films sandwiched before and after Pride.

If you can't afford travel, accommodations or tickets to Sundance, the folks who stage the 16th San Francisco Documentary Festival (aka SF DocFest) have a deal for you. From May 31-June 15, DocFest unspools at SF's Roxie, Vogue and Alamo Drafthouse.