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Since 1984, our audience has been responsible for selecting the Audience Awards for Narrative Feature and Documentary Feature — as well as audience prizes for short films and episodics at different points in the Festival history. Audiences will be able to vote for their favorite films during the Festival.
2023 Feature: The Origin of Evil (L’origine du mal)
Documentary: Who I Am Not
2022 Feature: Vulveeta
Documentary: Uýra: The Rising Forest (Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta)
2021 Feature: Lola (Lola vers la mer)
Documentary: Invisible
Short: Sheer Qorma
2020 Feature: Rūrangi
Documentary: Cured
Short: These Thems: Episode 1
2019 Feature: Song Lang
Documentary: Changing the Game
Episodic: A Luv Tale: The Series
Short: Bubble
2018 Feature: For Izzy
Documentary: The Rest I Make Up
Episodic: Giving Me Life (In the Land of the Deadass)
Short: Masks
2017 Feature: God’s Own Country
Documentary: Chavela
Short: Curmudgeons
2016 Feature: Pushing Dead
Documentary: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Short: Vámonos
2015 Feature: Margarita, with a Straw
Documentary: Game Face
Short: Adrift in Sunset
2014 Feature: The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)
Documentary: Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank
Short: Black Is Blue
2013 Feature: Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras)
Documentary: The New Black
Short: DIK
2012 Feature: Cloudburst
Documentary: Call Me Kuchu
Short: Tsuyako
2011 Feature: Tomboy
Documentary: Gen Silent
Short: Bald Guy
2010 Feature: The String (Le fil)
Documentary: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Short: Remember Me in Red
2009 Feature: Patrik, Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5)
Documentary: Training Rules
Short: Lucha
2008 Feature: XXY
Documentary: Pageant
Short: No Bikini
2007 Feature: Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)
Documentary: Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey and The Polymath
Short: Pariah
2006 Feature: The Gymnast
Documentary: The Believers
Short: Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road
2005 Feature: Transamerica
Documentary: Blood, Sweat, and Glitter
Short: In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Families
2004 Feature: Brother to Brother
Documentary: Drag Kings on Tour
Short: Mind if I Call You Sir?
2003 Feature: Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (Ja zuster, nee zuster)
Documentary: Brother Outsider
Short: Butch Mystique
2002 Feature: The Business of Fancydancing
Documentary: Radical Harmonies
Short: The Parlor
2001 Feature: The Iron Ladies (Satree lek)
Documentary: Scout’s Honor
Short: No Dumb Questions
2000 Feature: Big Eden
Documentary: Paragraph 175
Short: Crush
1999 Feature: Chutney Popcorn
Documentary: Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
Short: The Boy Next Door
1998 Feature: Edge of Seventeen
Documentary: Dear Jesse
Short: Sleep Come Free Me
Animation: Dirty Baby Does Fire Island
1997 Feature: Lilies (Lilies – Les feluettes)
Documentary: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End
Short: Twisted Sheets
1996 Feature: Stonewall
Documentary: It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
Short: Margaret Star: A Fall From Grace
1995 Features: Costa Brava and Parallel Sons
Documentary: Fiction and Other Truths: A Documentary About Jane Rule
Shorts: Party Favor and Trevor
Video: Coming Out of the Iron Closet
1994 Features: Only the Brave and World and Time Enough
Documentary: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter
Shorts: Carmelita Tropicana and A Friend of Dorothy
Video: Sis: The Perry Watkins Story
1993 Feature: Grief
Documentary: One Nation Under God
Shorts: Intrepidissima and Deaf Heaven and Chicks in White Satin
Video: Homoteens
1992 Feature: Twin Bracelets (Shuang zhuo)
Documentary: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
Shorts: A Certain Grace and The Dead Boys’ Club
Video: (In)Visible Women
1991 Feature: Together Alone
Documentary: Thank You and Goodnight
Short: Give AIDS the Freeze
Video: American Fabulous
1990 Feature: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Documentary: Paris Is Burning
Short: Flames of Passion
Video: Tongues Untied
1989 Feature: The Heart Exposed (Le coeur découvert)
Documentary: Out in Suburbia
Short: Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
Video: Out on Four
1988 Feature: Friends Forever (Venner for altid)
Special Award: The Days of Greek Gods
Short: Bertrand Missing (Bertrand disparu)
Video: The War Widow
1987 Feature: Law of Desire (La ley del deseo)
1986 Feature: Westler: East of the Wall (Westler)
Documentary: The AIDS Show
1985 Feature: Broken Mirrors (Gebroken spiegels)
Documentary: The Times of Harvey Milk
Short: David Roche Talks to You About Love
1984 Feature: Angel (Angelos)
Documentary: Improper Conduct (Mauvaise conduite)
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