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: (tie) Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day (Lijepa večer, lijep dan), directed by Ivona Juka, and Castration Movie: Pt. I, directed by Louise Weard
• Documentary: WICKET, directed by Lily Plotkin

• Narrative: All Shall Be Well (從今以後), directed by Ray Yeung
• Documentary: The World According to Allee Willis, directed by Alexis Spraic

• Narrative: The Origin of Evil (L’origine du mal), directed by Sébastien Marnier
• Documentary: Who I Am Not, directed by Tünde Skovrán

• Narrative: Vulveeta, directed by Maria Breaux
• Documentary: Uýra: The Rising Forest (Uýra – A Retomada da Floresta), directed by Juliana Curi

• Narrative: Lola (Lola vers la mer), directed by Laurent Micheli
• Documentary: Invisible, directed by T.J. Parsell
• Short: Sheer Qorma, directed by Faraz Arif Ansari

• Narrative: Rūrangi, directed by Max Currie
• Documentary: Cured, directed by Patrick Sammon & Bennett Singer
• Short: These Thems: Episode 1, directed by Jett Garrison

• Narrative: Song Lang, directed by Leon Le
• Documentary: Changing the Game, directed by Michael Barnett
• Episodic: A Luv Tale: The Series, directed by Kay Oyegun
• Short: Bubble, directed by Alyssa Lerner

• Narrative: For Izzy, directed by Alex Chu
• Documentary: The Rest I Make Up, directed by Michelle Memran
• Episodic: Giving Me Life (In the Land of the Deadass), directed by Dafina Roberts
• Short: Masks, directed by Mahaliyah Ayla O

• Narrative: God’s Own Country, directed by Francis Lee
• Documentary: Chavela, directed by Catherine Gund & Daresha Kyi
• Short: Curmudgeons, directed by Danny DeVito

• Narrative: Pushing Dead, directed by Tom E. Brown
• Documentary: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, directed by Deborah S. Esquenazi
• Short: Vámonos, directed by Marvin Lemus

• Narrative: Margarita, with a Straw, directed by Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar
• Documentary: Game Face, directed by Michiel Thomas
• Short: Adrift in Sunset, directed by Narissa Lee

• Narrative: The Way He Looks (Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho), directed by Daniel Ribeiro
• Documentary: Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank, directed by Sheila Canavan & Michael Chandler
• Short: Black Is Blue, directed by Cheryl Dunye

• Narrative: Reaching for the Moon (Flores Raras), directed by Bruno Barreto
• Documentary: The New Black, directed by Yoruba Richen
• Short: dik, directed by Christopher Stollery

• Narrative: Cloudburst, directed by Thom Fitzgerald
• Documentary: Call Me Kuchu, directed by Katherine Fairfax Wright & Malika Zouhali-Worrall
• Short: Tsuyako, directed by Hikari

• Narrative: Tomboy, directed by Céline Sciamma
• Documentary: Gen Silent, directed by Stu Maddux
• Short: Baldguy (Skallamann), directed by Maria Bock

• Narrative: The String (Le fil), directed by Mehdi Ben Attia
• Documentary: The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, directed by Leanne Pooley
• Short: Remember Me in Red, directed by Hector Ceballos

• Narrative: Patrik, Age 1.5 (Patrik 1,5), directed by Ella Lemhagen
• Documentary: Training Rules, directed by Dee Mosbacher & Fawn Yacker
• Short: Lucha, directed by Maria Breaux

• Narrative: XXY, directed by Lucía Puenzo
• Documentary: Pageant, directed by Ron Davis & Stewart Halpern
• Short: No Bikini, directed by Claudia Morgado Escanilla

• Narrative: Four Minutes (Vier Minuten), directed by Chris Kraus
• Documentary: (tie) Semper Fi: One Marine’s Journey, directed by Vince DiPersio, and The Polymath, Or The Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman, directed by Fred Barney Taylor
• Short: Pariah, directed by Dee Rees

• Narrative: The Gymnast, directed by Ned Farr
• Documentary: The Believers, directed by Todd Holland
• Short: Irene Williams: Queen of Lincoln Road, directed by Eric Smith

• Narrative: Transamerica, directed by Duncan Tucker
• Documentary: Blood, Sweat, and Glitter, directed by Sasha Aickin
• Short: In My Shoes: Stories of Youth with LGBT Families, directed by Jen Gilomen

• Narrative: Brother to Brother, directed by Rodney Evans
• Documentary: Drag Kings on Tour, directed by Sonia Slutsky
• Short: Mind If I Call You Sir?, directed by Mary Guzmán

• Narrative: Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (Ja zuster, nee zuster), directed by Pieter Kramer
• Documentary: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, directed by Bennett Singer & Nancy D. Kates
• Short: Butch Mystique, directed by Debra A. Wilson

• Narrative: The Business of Fancydancing, directed by Sherman Alexie
• Documentary: Radical Harmonies, directed by Dee Mosbacher
• Short: The Parlor, directed by Geoffrey Haley

• Narrative: The Iron Ladies (สตรีเหล็ก), directed by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
• Documentary: Scout’s Honor, directed by Tom Shepard
• Short: No Dumb Questions, directed by Melissa Regan

• Narrative: Big Eden, directed by Thomas Bezucha
• Documentary: (tie) Paragraph 175, directed by Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, and That’s a Family, directed by Debra Chasnoff
• Short: Crush, directed by Phillip J. Bartell

• Narrative: Chutney Popcorn, directed by Nisha Ganatra
• Documentary: Living with Pride: Ruth C. Ellis @ 100, directed by Yvonne Welbon
• Short: Boy Next Door, directed by Carl Pfirman

• Narrative: Edge of Seventeen, directed by David Moreton
• Documentary: Dear Jesse, directed by Tim Kirkman
• Short: Sleep Come Free Me, directed by Laurie Schmidt
• Animation: Dirty Baby Does Fire Island, directed by Todd Downing

• Narrative: Lilies (Lilies – Les feluettes), directed by John Greyson
• Documentary: Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer’s End, directed by Monte Bramer
• Short: Twisted Sheets, directed by Chris Deacon

• Narrative: Stonewall, directed by Nigel Finch
• Documentary: It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, directed by Debra Chasnoff & Helen Cohen
• Short: Margaret Star: A Fall from Grace, directed by Annabelle Murphy

• Narrative: (tie) Costa Brava, directed by Marta Balletbò-Coll, and Parallel Sons, directed by John G. Young
• Documentary: Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule, directed by Lynne Fernie & Aerlyn Weissman
• Shorts: (tie) The Party Favor, directed by Lisa Udelson, and Trevor, directed by Peggy Rajski
• Video: Coming Out of the Iron Closet, directed by Larry Peloso & Imre Sooäär

• Narrative: (tie) Only the Brave, directed by Ana Kokkinos, and World and Time Enough, directed by Eric Mueller
• Documentary: Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, directed by Deborah Hoffmann
• Shorts: (tie) Carmelita Tropicana, directed by Ela Troyano, and A Friend of Dorothy, directed by Raoul O’Connell
• Video: Sis: The Perry Watkins Story, directed by Chiqui Cartagena

• Narrative: Grief, directed by Richard Glatzer
• Documentary: One Nation Under God, directed by Teodoro Maniaci & Francine Rzeznik
• Shorts (Narrative): (tie) Intrepidíssima, directed by Marta Balletbò-Coll, and Deaf Heaven, directed by Steve Levitt
• Short (Documentary): Chicks in White Satin, directed by Elaine Holliman
• Video: Homoteens, directed by Joan Jubela

• Narrative: Twin Bracelets (雙鐲), directed by Huang Yu-Shan
• Documentary: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker, directed by Richard Schmiechen
• Shorts: (tie) A Certain Grace, directed by Sandra Nettelbeck, and The Dead Boys’ Club, directed by Mark Christopher
• Video: (In)Visible Women, directed by Ellen Spiro & Marina Alvarez

• Narrative: Together Alone, directed by P.J. Castellaneta
• Documentary: Thank You and Good Night, directed by Jan Oxenberg
• Short: Give AIDS the Freeze, directed by Cathy Joritz
• Video: American Fabulous, directed by Reno Dakota

• Narrative: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, directed by Beeban Kidron
• Documentary: Paris Is Burning, directed by Jennie Livingston
• Short: Flames of Passion, directed by Richard Kwietniowski
• Video: Tongues Untied, directed by Marlon T. Riggs

• Narrative: The Heart Exposed (Le cœur découvert), directed by Jean-Yves Laforce
• Documentary: Out in Suburbia, directed by Pam Walton
• Short: Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall, directed by Bryan Gordon

• Narrative: Friends Forever (Venner for altid), directed by Stefan Henszelman
• Short: Bertrand Is Missing (Bertrand disparu), directed by Patrick Mimouni
• Video: The War Widow
• Special Program Award: The Days of Greek Gods, directed by Dick Fontaine

• Narrative: Law of Desire (La ley del deseo), directed by Pedro Almodóvar

• Narrative: Westler: East of the Wall (Westler), directed by Wieland Speck
• Documentary: The AIDS Show, directed by Rob Epstein & Peter Adair

• Narrative: Broken Mirrors (Gebroken spiegels), directed by Marleen Gorris
• Documentary: The Times of Harvey Milk, directed by Rob Epstein
• Short: David Roche Talks to You About Love, directed by Jeremy Podeswa

• Narrative: Angel (Άγγελος), directed by Giorgos Katakouzinos
• Documentary: Improper Conduct (Mauvaise conduite), directed by Néstor Almendros & Orlando Jiménez Leal