Don’t let the name fool you. From stories about queer erotic encounters to lusting over carrots, these animated shorts are strictly for adults.

For his feature directorial debut, Sergio de León weaves surreal imagery, offbeat humor, and a ton of birds into one of the most vivid and original queer coming of age films in recent memory — about 18-year-old Emilio, who receives a cursed inheritance of a rural dovecote for carrier pigeons following the death of his mother.

With dizzying cinematography and break-neck suspense, director Simon Bouisson plunges the audience into the paranoid world of surveillance stalking. Architecture student by day, camgirl by night, a young queer woman’s new life in Paris is rattled when she realizes she’s being stalked by a mysterious drone.

Three college friends embark on a cross-country road trip/rescue mission in search of missing fourth, confronting the choices that increase — or sacrifice — their joy along the way. Celebrating the complex interior lives and loves of Black queers across a spectrum, Dreams in Nightmares is expertly helmed by director Shatara Michelle Ford and a cast of majority queer and trans Black actors.  

A small town arm-wrestling champion’s world is upended when his secret teenage love returns, resurfacing the passion he had long since buried. With the threat of an incoming flood on the horizon as their love slowly rekindles, he begins to question the future he had planned for himself in this keenly observed coming-of-age drama.

Exploring what it means to be a queer teen in the 2020s, Niñxs turns the transition narrative and the coming-of-age portrait on their heads, as director Kani Lapuerta lets Karla Bañuelos — who is always playfully aware of the camera — shape the project into a cinematic diary. This inventive doc was a recipient of a Frameline Completion Fund grant.

In this provocative Sundance award winner, a closeted undercover cop (Tom Blyth) is tasked with being the bait to entrap gay men cruising the mall when he falls for one of his targets (Russell Tovey). Set in the 1990s, Plainclothes unfolds through a fragmented timeline with VHS-spliced visuals, dissolving the boundaries between secrecy and desire, watcher and watched.

Winner of the Festival Favorite Award at Sundance, Come See Me in the Good Light is a poignant and funny portrait of poet and activist Andrea Gibson following a terminal cancer diagnosis. Gibson and partner Megan Falley unearth a profound sense of resilience in small, everyday joys as they discover what it means to really live.

Known for being the first American woman to fly in space, astronaut and physicist Sally Ride kept her personal life private until her death — where it was revealed she had a long-term partnership with science writer and professor Tam O'Shaughnessy. This Sundance Award-winning documentary seamlessly blends archival footage and intimate interviews for a complete portrait of Earth’s first known lesbian space traveller. 

In this bawdy and heartwarming story of mothers and sons, the trials of juggling self-care and caring for a loved one are told through Edward (James McArdle), a gay novelist looking after his non-verbal mother (Fionnula Flanagan). A chaotic weekend starts to unfold when his three best friends impulsively dump their elderly mothers onto him for a Pride getaway.

Executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, The Librarians examines the book bans threatening schools and libraries in the United States. As legislators take aim at works that center on race and queerness, a group of librarians put their lives at risk to ensure that our stories aren’t removed from shelves — or erased from culture at large.

Shot in stark black and white, this provocative film from actor-turned-director Jun Li follows a young gay man (Jayden Cheung, in a remarkable, daring debut) on an erotic travelogue of Hong Kong, moving from hookup to hook-up while quietly assuming the persona of his latest sexual encounter. Preceded by Carpobrotus.

Twentysomething Anna finally leaves her small, transphobic hometown for good and quickly begins dating goth tattoo artist Gen after the two discover they share supernatural powers. But before Anna can call up the U-Haul, the sick neck tattoo Gen gives one of her clients inadvertently summons a demon that begins feeding off of their friends. Preceded by The Age of Flowering Plants.

In 1981 in Odessa, Texas, the nude body of a Catholic priest was discovered in a seedy motel room. Cops had no leads until James Reyos, a young gay Apache man, suddenly confessed and was swiftly convicted. Though Reyos quickly recanted his confession, it took four decades for previously buried evidence to emerge, sending shockwaves through the town.

When a promising audition goes sideways, rising musical theatre star Z questions everything — from his career to his trans masc identity. With the help of a wise vocal coach and a new friend behind the bar, he begins to find his true voice. A joyful, intimate story of self-discovery, starring a standout Breton Lalama as Z. Preceded by Tessitura.

Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel returns to Frameline with a glorious and impassioned tribute to the Florida Everglades. Drawing inspiration from the work of writer and activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the film beautifully summons regional history to serve as a call to action to preserve the local ecosystem and fight the systemic threats of the climate crisis.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the definitive literary portraits of queer San Francisco, Michelle Tea’s Valencia, Frameline49 is hosting a screening of its radical, community-made 2013 film adaptation, followed by a walking tour of old haunts and dyke destinations of The Mission with Tea serving as your guide.

In 1990s Paris, long-term couple Emma and Sammy move into a new apartment, where they both find themselves drawn to their downstairs neighbor Cyril, a handsome young HIV-positive photographer. Victor Belmondo, Lou Lampros, and Théo Christine beautifully play three young people navigating a bisexual love triangle in a not-so-long-ago era when AIDS was almost always a death sentence.

Baby is in trouble. Fresh out of juvenile detention and with nowhere to go, 17-year-old Wellington (João Pedro Mariano) — nicknamed “Baby” — hits the streets of São Paulo alone. His parents have vanished, and the system is waiting to pull him back in, when boundaries begin to blur with a magnetic street hustler named Ronald (Ricardo Teodoro).

When the Straight White Maliens kidnap her ex, the titular sapphic monarch-to-be (voiced by Shabana Azeez) finds herself embarking on a truly zany journey through space. Filled with laugh-out-loud gay in-jokes, carabiner-tapping musical numbers, and offbeat characters, this year's Teddy Award winner is a lovably frenetic animated sci-fi comedy.

In a San Francisco losing its soul to rapid gentrification, nonbinary newbie Cass barely scrapes by nannying for wealthy kids, waiting tables, and dealing just enough party drugs to cover rent on a small apartment. A one-night stand with coworker Kalli sparks something real, but when Kalli disappears — leaving her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, in Cass’ hands — the seams start to come undone.