Why the long face? Break out the smiles and the popcorn as we celebrate homo hilarity in nine comic shorts. We start (like all good lightweight bouts) with a Weigh In—a queer send-up of hyperventilating boxing promos. In the charming animation Bittersweet, an anxious schoolboy scrambles to retrieve a valentine he’s sent to his secret crush, while a cake delivery goes horribly wrong (until it goes just right) in Spark. Two longtime San Franciscans recount their unlikely first date in The Glory Hole, which calls for a sexy black latex dance break (Mask4Mask). In the post-apocalypse, our time-traveling hero breaks protocol to visit his sex-starved younger self, in Time Quest... while the human jukebox at a carnival serves up a gay fantasia in MeTube 2: August Sings Carmina Burana. Enjoy a fairy flashback to Frameline’s founding decade (that’s the ’70s, kids): a filmmaker who found a box of fabulous Super 8 movie reels re-fashions them into The Radical Fairy Prince: A Love Story. And we close with a visit to a London bathhouse, where some of the guys are so unresponsive you’d think they were zombies—oh no! They are! It’s Sauna the Dead—A Fairy Tale.

— Peter L. Stein