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.

A twelve-year-old deals with adolescence and family instability in this ambitious, queer coming-of-age story. Director Clyde Petersen spins out an amalgam of stop-motion animation, original music, and ‘90s pop culture references in this sprawling journey, both coast-to-coast and in abstraction.