SFist Sara gives you the lowdown on what to expect from the Frameline GLBT film fest, which starts up TODAY!

Starting today, The Frameline LGBT Film Festival will be rolling out its rainbow carpet at the Castro and the lineup of guests is glittery. Besides appearances by RuPaul (for Starrbooty), Alan Cumming (for his directorial debut Suffering Man’s Charity) and Alexis Arquette (for Alexis Arquette: She’s our Brother), the fest is again offering a super smart lineup of LGBT themed fare with a special mention of the fest’s foreign language section.

Opening night (tonight!) is the French film The Witnesses. Set over a year between 1984-85, this film follows a group of friends and lovers during the AIDS discovery period. An ensemble piece, André Téchiné intelligently weaves a plot that implicates parental and sexual relationships while getting at the question: “what can we really know about each other?” Subtle in its ways, Witnesses lets you be the witness to its eventual quandary. And if you’re not into it, at the very least it’s artful.

Nina’s Heavenly Delights (preview here) is a sort of Indian/Lesbian/Scottish Like Water For Chocolate (director Pratibha Parmar attending). It’s mainstream and a little overly sweetened, but it’s full of really pretty people and positively raises the question of compromise: everyone is bi-cultural, everyone is hiding a decision and everyone would be so much happier if they just spit it out already! (Audience included.)

More movies, and preview clips, after the jump! Preview of Nina's Heavenly Delights above.