Frameline’s Juried Awards for Outstanding First Narrative Feature and Outstanding Documentary Feature have recognized exceptional films and filmmakers since 1999. In 2022, the Festival introduced two additional categories: Outstanding Narrative Short and Outstanding Documentary Short. To learn more about the honors given out at the annual San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, please visit our dedicated Festival Awards page.

• First Narrative Feature: The Nature of Invisible Things (A Natureza das Coisas Invisíveis)
• Honorable Mentions: Lucky, Apartment (럭키, 아파트) and Plainclothes
• Documentary Feature: I’m Your Venus
• Honorable Mention: The Librarians
• Narrative Short: The Eating of an Orange
• Honorable Mention: An Odd Turn (Un movimiento extraño)
• Documentary Short: Tessitura
• Honorable Mentions: AutoErotica: We Buy Gay Stuff and Thanks, Babs!

• First Narrative Feature: National Anthem
• Honorable Mentions: In the Summers and Young Hearts
• Documentary Feature: Fragments of a Life Loved (Frammenti di un percorso amoroso)
• Narrative Short: Paradise Europe (Du Bist so Wunderbar)
• Honorable Mentions: If I’m Here It Is by Mystery (Se Eu Tô Aqui é Por Mistério) and Ripe!
• Documentary Short: Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr
• Honorable Mentions: Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way and You can’t get what you want but you can get me

• First Narrative Feature: 20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas)
• Honorable Mention: Big Boys
• Documentary Feature: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
• Honorable Mention: Every Body
• Narrative Short: The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World (Os Animais Mais Fofos e Engraçados do Mundo)
• Documentary Short: Ob scene (Ob scena)

• First Narrative Feature: So Damn Easy Going (Så jävla easy going)
• Honorable Mentions: Besties (Les meilleures) and Unidentified Objects
• Narrative Short: Tank Fairy (桶妝仙女)
• Honorable Mention: Monsieur Le Butch
• Documentary Short: Holding Moses
• Honorable Mention: I Just Wanna Dance

• First Narrative Feature: Milkwater
• Honorable Mentions: Language Lessons and Firebird

• First Narrative Feature: Two of Us (Deux)

• First Narrative Feature: End of the Century (Fin de siglo)
• Honorable Mention: Zen in the Ice Rift (Zen sul ghiaccio sottile)
• Documentary Feature: Vision Portraits 

• First Narrative Feature: Retablo
• Documentary Feature: When the Beat Drops

• First Narrative Feature: The Wound (Inxeba)
• Documentary Feature: Strong Island

• First Narrative Feature: Jonathan
• Documentary Feature: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

• First Narrative Feature: In the Grayscale (En la gama de los grises)
• Honorable Mention: Stories of Our Lives
• Documentary Feature: Alex & Ali
• Honorable Mention: The Amina Profile

• First Narrative Feature: Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder)
• Honorable Mention: Lilting
• Documentary Feature: Kumu Hina
• Honorable Mention: Regarding Susan Sontag

• First Narrative Feature: Out in the Dark (Alata)
• Honorable Mention: Concussion
• Documentary Feature: Valentine Road
• Honorable Mentions: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton and The New Black

• First Narrative Feature: Facing Mirrors (Aynehaye Rooberoo)
• Honorable Mention: My Brother the Devil
• Documentary Feature: The Invisible Men (Gvarim Bilti Nirim)
• Honorable Mention: I Am a Woman Now

• First Narrative Feature: The Evening Dress (La robe du soir)
• Honorable Mention: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same
• Documentary Feature: Wish Me Away
• Honorable Mention: Hit So Hard

• First Narrative Feature: Undertow (Contracorriente)
• Documentary Feature: Dzi Croquettes
• Special Mention: Postcard to Daddy

• First Narrative Feature: Glue
• Documentary Feature: Red Without Blue

• First Narrative Feature: Stray Cats (Mga pusang gala)
• Documentary Feature: Cruel and Unusual

• First Narrative Feature: Gypo
• Documentary Feature: Zero Degrees of Separation

• First Narrative Feature: Eating Out
• Documentary Feature: Tying the Knot

• First Narrative Feature: The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen)
• Documentary Feature: Straight Out (Hrein og bein) and Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary

• First Narrative Feature: Guardian of the Frontier (Varuh meje)
• Documentary Feature: Georgie Girl

• First Narrative Feature: Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• First Narrative Feature: Urbania

• First Narrative Feature: Head On