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, videos, animation, and episodics at different points in the Festival’s history. To learn more about the honors given out at the annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, please visit our dedicated Festival Awards page.

• Narrative: Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day (Lijepa večer, lijep dan) and Castration Movie: Pt. I — TIE
• Documentary: WICKET

• Narrative: All Shall Be Well (從今以後)
• Documentary: The World According to Allee Willis

• Narrative: The Origin of Evil (L’origine du mal)
• Documentary: Who I Am Not

• Narrative: Vulveeta
• Documentary: Uýra: The Rising Forest (Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta)

• Narrative: Lola (Lola vers la mer)
• Documentary: Invisible
• Short: Sheer Qorma

• Narrative: Rūrangi
• Documentary: Cured
• Short: These Thems: Episode 1

• Narrative: Song Lang
• Documentary: Changing the Game
• Episodic: A Luv Tale: The Series
• Short: Bubble

• Narrative: For Izzy
• Documentary: The Rest I Make Up
• Episodic: Giving Me Life (In the Land of the Deadass)
• Short: Masks

• Narrative: God’s Own Country
• Documentary: Chavela
• Short: Curmudgeons

• Narrative: Pushing Dead
• Documentary: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
• Short: Vámonos

• Narrative: Margarita, with a Straw
• Documentary: Game Face
• Short: Adrift in Sunset

• Narrative: The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho)
• Documentary: Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank
• Short: Black Is Blue

• Narrative: Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras)
• Documentary: The New Black
• Short: dik

• Narrative: Cloudburst
• Documentary: Call Me Kuchu
• Short: Tsuyako

• Narrative: Tomboy
• Documentary: Gen Silent
• Short: Baldguy (Skallamann)

• Narrative: The String (Le fil)
• Documentary: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
• Short: Remember Me in Red

• Narrative: Patrik, Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5)
• Documentary: Training Rules
• Short: Lucha

• Narrative: XXY
• Documentary: Pageant
• Short: No Bikini

• Narrative: Four Minutes (Vier Minuten)
• Documentary: Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey and The Polymath
• Short: Pariah

• Narrative: The Gymnast
• Documentary: The Believers
• Short: Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road

• Narrative: Transamerica
• Documentary: Blood, Sweat, and Glitter
• Short: In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Families

• Narrative: Brother to Brother
• Documentary: Drag Kings on Tour
• Short: Mind If I Call You Sir?

• Narrative: Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (Ja zuster, nee zuster)
• Documentary: Brother Outsider
• Short: Butch Mystique

• Narrative: The Business of Fancydancing
• Documentary: Radical Harmonies
• Short: The Parlor

• Narrative: The Iron Ladies (สตรีเหล็ก)
• Documentary: Scout’s Honor
• Short: No Dumb Questions

• Narrative: Big Eden
• Documentary: Paragraph 175 and That’s a Family
• Short: Crush

• Narrative: Chutney Popcorn
• Documentary: Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100
• Short: Boy Next Door

• Narrative: Edge of Seventeen
• Documentary: Dear Jesse
• Short: Sleep Come Free Me
• Animation: Dirty Baby Does Fire Island

• Narrative: Lilies (Lilies – Les feluettes)
• Documentary: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End
• Short: Twisted Sheets

• Narrative: Stonewall
• Documentary: It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
• Short: Margaret Star: A Fall from Grace

• Narrative: Costa Brava and Parallel Sons
• Documentary: Fiction and Other Truths: A Documentary About Jane Rule
• Shorts: The Party Favor and Trevor
• Video: Coming Out of the Iron Closet

• Narrative: 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

• Narrative: Grief
• Documentary: One Nation Under God
• Shorts (Narrative): Intrepidíssima and Deaf Heaven
• Short (Documentary): Chicks in White Satin
• Video: Homoteens

• Narrative: Twin Bracelets (雙鐲)
• Documentary: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
• Shorts: A Certain Grace and The Dead Boys’ Club
• Video: (In)Visible Women

• Narrative: Together Alone
• Documentary: Thank You and Goodnight
• Short: Give AIDS the Freeze
• Video: American Fabulous

• Narrative: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
• Documentary: Paris Is Burning
• Short: Flames of Passion
• Video: Tongues Untied

• Narrative: The Heart Exposed (Le cœur découvert)
• Documentary: Out in Suburbia
• Short: Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
• Video: Out on Four

• Narrative: Friends Forever (Venner for altid)
• Short: Bertrand Is Missing (Bertrand disparu)
• Video: The War Widow
• Special Program Award: The Days of Greek Gods

• Narrative: Law of Desire (La ley del deseo)

• Narrative: Westler: East of the Wall (Westler)
• Documentary: The AIDS Show

• Narrative: Broken Mirrors (Gebroken spiegels)
• Documentary: The Times of Harvey Milk
• Short: David Roche Talks to You About Love

• Narrative: Angel (Άγγελος)
• Documentary: Improper Conduct (Mauvaise conduite)