The expectation- and binary-breaking shorts in this year’s batch of Bi Candy run the gamut from sultry and seductive to sweet and awkward.

In Our Second First Date, a woman is magically forced to repeat the same date over and over again until she can make it go perfectly. Open Recess takes a nostalgic animated look back at a childhood romance between two girls. A married woman in her forties navigates a fine line between love and infatuation with her friend’s daughter, in Bird of Prey. In Last Night Was a Mistake, best friends, Alexa and Maya wanted stress-free trip to Vegas away from their significant others. Mix in plenty of alcohol and a visit to a wedding chapel to see that what happens in Vegas can have lasting consequences. Created as part of the 2017 Outfest Fusion One Minute Movie Competition, More Love. Less Prepackaged Bullshit. is an invocation calling in Assata Shakur, Chuck D, and Angela Davis. In Climax, a young man convinced of his heterosexuality goes home with a girl, but he discovers that the she was not what he expected. Freddie gets a Spear-itual awakening when he joins an anonymous support group for closeted Britney Spears fans, in Britney-holics Anonymous: A Spear-itual Awakening.

— CURATED BY ALLEGRA AND APRIL HIRSCHMAN