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), directed by Rafaela Camelo
  • Honorable Mention: Lucky, Apartment (럭키, 아파트), directed by Kangyu Garam
  • Honorable Mention: Plainclothes, directed by Carmen Emmi
• Documentary Feature: I’m Your Venus, directed by Kimberly Reed
  • Honorable Mention: The Librarians, directed by Kim A. Snyder
• Narrative Short: The Eating of an Orange, directed by May Kindred-Boothby
  • Honorable Mention: An Odd Turn (Un movimiento extraño), directed by Francisco Lezama
• Documentary Short: Tessitura, directed by Lydia Cornett & Brit Fryer
  • Honorable Mention: AutoErotica: We Buy Gay Stuff, directed by Jeremy von Stilb
  • Honorable Mention: Thanks, Babs!, directed by Jen Rainin & Rivkah Beth Medow

• First Narrative Feature: National Anthem, directed by Luke Gilford
  • Honorable Mention: In the Summers, directed by Alessandra Lacorazza
  • Honorable Mention: Young Hearts, directed by Anthony Schatteman
• Documentary Feature: Fragments of a Life Loved (Frammenti di un percorso amoroso), directed by Chloé Barreau
• Narrative Short: Paradise Europe (Du Bist so Wunderbar), directed by Leandro Goddinho & Paulo Menezes
  • Honorable Mention: If I’m Here It Is by Mystery (Se Eu Tô Aqui é Por Mistério), directed by Clari Ribeiro
  • Honorable Mention: Ripe!, directed by Tusk
• Documentary Short: Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr, directed by Kimberly Reed
  • Honorable Mention: Wouldn’t Make It Any Other Way, directed by Hao Zhou
  • Honorable Mention: You can’t get what you want but you can get me, directed by Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh

• First Narrative Feature: 20,000 Species of Bees (20.000 especies de abejas), directed by Estibalitz Urresola Solaguren
  • Honorable Mention: Big Boys, directed by Corey Sherman
• Documentary Feature: Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project, directed by Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster
  • Honorable Mention: Every Body, directed by Julie Cohen
• Narrative Short: The Cutest and Funniest Animals in the World (Os Animais Mais Fofos e Engraçados do Mundo), directed by Renato Sircilli
• Documentary Short: Ob scene (Ob scena), directed by Paloma Orlandini Castro

• First Narrative Feature: So Damn Easy Going (Så jävla easy going), directed by Christoffer Sandler
  • Honorable Mention: Besties (Les meilleures), directed by Marion Desseigne-Ravel
  • Honorable Mention: Unidentified Objects, directed by Juan Felipe Zuleta
• Narrative Short: Tank Fairy (桶妝仙女), directed by Erich Rettstadt
  • Honorable Mention: Monsieur Le Butch, directed by Jude Dry
• Documentary Short: Holding Moses, directed by Rivkah Beth Medow & Jen Rainin
  • Honorable Mention: I Just Wanna Dance, directed by Amanda Beane

• First Narrative Feature: Milkwater, directed by Morgan Ingari
  • Honorable Mention: Language Lessons, directed by Natalie Morales
  • Honorable Mention: Firebird, directed by Peeter Rebane

• First Narrative Feature: Two of Us (Deux), directed by Filippo Meneghetti

• First Narrative Feature: End of the Century (Fin de siglo), directed by Lucio Castro
  • Honorable Mention: Zen in the Ice Rift (Zen sul ghiaccio sottile), directed by Margherita Ferri
• Documentary Feature: Vision Portraits, directed by Rodney Evans

• First Narrative Feature: Retablo, directed by Alvaro Delgado Aparicio
• Documentary Feature: When the Beat Drops, directed by Jamal Sims

• First Narrative Feature: The Wound (Inxeba), directed by John Trengove
• Documentary Feature: Strong Island, directed by Yance Ford

• First Narrative Feature: Jonathan, directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski
• Documentary Feature: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, directed by Deborah S. Esquenazi

• First Narrative Feature: In the Grayscale (En la gama de los grises), directed by Claudio Marcone
  • Honorable Mention: Stories of Our Lives, directed by Jim Chuchu
• Documentary Feature: Alex & Ali, directed by Malachi Leopold
  • Honorable Mention: The Amina Profile, directed by Sophie Deraspe

• First Narrative Feature: Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder), directed by Ester Martin Bergsmark
  • Honorable Mention: Lilting, directed by Hong Khaou
• Documentary Feature: Kumu Hina, directed by Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson
  • Honorable Mention: Regarding Susan Sontag, directed by Nancy D. Kates

• First Narrative Feature: Out in the Dark (Alata), directed by Michael Mayer
  • Honorable Mention: Concussion, directed by Stacie Passon
• Documentary Feature: Valentine Road, directed by Marta Cunningham
  • Honorable Mention: Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directed by Dawn Logsdon, Stephen Silha, & Eric Slade
  • Honorable Mention: The New Black, directed by Yoruba Richen

• First Narrative Feature: Facing Mirrors (Aynehaye Rooberoo), directed by Negar Azarbayjani
  • Honorable Mention: My Brother the Devil, directed by Sally El Hosaini
• Documentary Feature: The Invisible Men (Gvarim Bilti Nirim), directed by Yariv Mozer
  • Honorable Mention: I Am a Woman Now, directed by Michiel van Erp

• First Narrative Feature: The Evening Dress (La robe du soir), directed by Myriam Aziza
  • Honorable Mention: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same, directed by Madeleine Olnek
• Documentary Feature: Wish Me Away, directed by Bobbie Birleffi & Beverly Kopf
  • Honorable Mention: Hit So Hard, directed by P. David Ebersole

• First Narrative Feature: Undertow (Contracorriente), directed by Javier Fuentes-León
• Documentary Feature: Dzi Croquettes, directed by Raphael Alvarez & Tatiana Issa
  • Special Mention: Postcard to Daddy, directed by Michael Stock

• First Narrative Feature: Glue, directed by Alexis Dos Santos
• Documentary Feature: Red Without Blue, directed by Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills, & Todd Sills

• First Narrative Feature: Stray Cats (Mga pusang gala), directed by Ellen Ongkeko-Marfil
• Documentary Feature: Cruel and Unusual, directed by Janet Baus, Reid Williams, & Dan Hunt

• First Narrative Feature: Gypo, directed by Jan Dunn
• Documentary Feature: Zero Degrees of Separation, directed by Elle Flanders

• First Narrative Feature: Eating Out, directed by Q. Allen Brocka
• Documentary Feature: Tying the Knot, directed by Jim de Sève

• First Narrative Feature: The Child I Never Was (Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen), directed by Kai S. Pieck
• Documentary Feature: (tie) Straight Out (Hrein og bein), directed by Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir & Þorvaldur Kristinsson, and Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary, directed by Tracy Flannigan

• First Narrative Feature: Guardian of the Frontier (Varuh meje), directed by Maja Weiss
• Documentary Feature: Georgie Girl, directed by Annie Goldson

• First Narrative Feature: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, directed by John Cameron Mitchell

• First Narrative Feature: Urbania, directed by Jon Shear

• First Narrative Feature: Head On, directed by Ana Kokkinos