feature films
and shorts

Join us as the world’s first Drag Laureate and Lady Champagne star D’Arcy Drollinger (Champagne White) brings her legendary energy to Fresno Reel Pride as Opening Night Mistress of Ceremonies. Following the film, stay for a special Q&A with D’Arcy, along with Lady Champagne stars Steven LeMay (Mandy) and Nancy French (Debbie), all of whom will make additional appearances throughout the evening. In 1978, exotic dancer Champagne White is framed for a murder she didn’t commit and sentenced to life behind bars at the famously corrupt Lady Prison. There she uncovers a sinister plot to harvest the prisoners’ G-spots to create a highly sought-after luxury fragrance.

Hunky Jesus is a feature documentary that explores the legacy of the San Francisco chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a global, secular order of queer and trans “nuns” who combat guilt, shame, and exclusion through joy, humor, activism, and irreverence, serving their communities while challenging bigotry and redefining spirituality.

A playful collection of stories exploring connection, desire, friendship, and the unexpected turns that make life — and love — anything but predictable.

Meet Al. Al is an aspiring cartoonist. Al is insecure. Al has a mundane corporate job and a problematic boss. Al is a trans man who is secretly in love with his best friend Jesse, who happens to also be attending the same weeklong queer artist workshop as Al.

A collection of intimate and imaginative stories exploring connection, identity, longing, and the unexpected ways we find our place in the world.

Expanding upon the world of documentarian Rachel Mason’s 2019 Netflix hit Circus of Books, My Brother’s Killer details the remarkable effort by members of the LGBTQ+ community in Los Angeles to solve the 1990 murder of adult film performer Billy London. Following a haunting urban legend that lingered for decades as a cold case, the documentary reopens the case and uncovers new perspectives, connections, and a startling resolution.

With its candy-coated color palette, Rodina Singh effortlessly blends the visual styles of impressionistic horror — think I Saw the TV Glow and Mandy — and the pages of Blueboy magazine to create a bold fever dream of trans sexuality and desire, and their power to sustain life.

Barbara Forever is an expansive, immersive exploration of the life, work, and ongoing cultural impact of filmmaker Barbara Hammer – a pioneering artist who lived boldly, created urgently, and transformed cinema through her singular vision. Her films were an extension of herself: sensual, experimental, and unapologetically lesbian, rooted in a profound desire for connection and an insistence on telling her own story.

On the Road (En el Camino) is a 2025 Mexican romantic-thriller film written and directed by David Pablos. It stars Victor Prieto and Osvaldo Sanchez. Veneno is a young hustler who trades sexual favors to gay men for money at a roadside diner. One day he meets Muñeco, an older truck driver passing through the area, and joins Muñeco on his journey, with the two men falling in love as they are pursued by figures from Veneno’s past.

Short films that uncover lesser-known stories and honor the lives, legacies, and histories of LGBTQ+ people, carrying their stories forward.

To Dance is to Resist follows Jay and Vol’demar, a queer couple and professional dancers navigating life within Kyiv’s underground scene during Russia’s full scale invasion. As air raid sirens puncture the night, dance studios, clubs and stages become places of refuge, where movement turns into collective resistance.

Built on nine decades of professional and personal archives, Uncle Roy follows the extraordinary life of globe-traveling-skater turned photographer Roy Blakey through the lens of his niece, award-winning documentary filmmaker Keri Pickett. This heartfelt documentary is a tribute to dreams, family, and the importance of preserving history.

Perfect, is a 2026 American drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Millicent Hailes in her directorial debut. It stars Julia Fox, Ashley Moore, Lío Mehiel, Micaela Wittman, Ryder McLaughlin, Kate Moennig, and Creed Bratton. Drawn to a lakeside haven by a mysterious pregnant woman, a heartbroken drifter finds refuge with a group of eccentric misfits.

Bold and personal stories that challenge the binary, explore identity and self-expression, and celebrate the many ways we experience gender.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, more than 50% of transgender boys have attempted suicide. In What Will I Become?, directors Lexie Bean and Logan Rozos explore the vulnerability of their transmasculine community. They delve into their own personal experiences, intertwining the stories of two young trans men who died by suicide.

A riotous, uncompromising celebration of otherness set in the late 19th century, as the 5th Marquess of Anglesey’s flamboyancy creates a stir on the estate and consternation among his relatives.

When Nate is forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup with his boyfriend, he is determined to escape the confines of retirement community life and his meddlesome grandparents’ relentless attempts to ‘improve’ him. But when his Holocaust-surviving grandfather, Saul, shows signs of cognitive decline and his grandmother, Miriam, refuses to acknowledge her husband’s early dementia, Nate finds himself torn between his desire to flee, family responsibilities, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ handsome doctor.

Fatima, 17, the youngest of three daughters, treads carefully as she searches for her own path, grappling with emerging desires, her attraction to women, and her loyalty to her caring French-Algerian family. Starting university in Paris, she dates, makes friends, and explores a whole new world, all while confronting a timeless and heartrending dilemma: How can one stay true to oneself when reconciling different parts of one’s identity feels impossible?

When the drug-lords of the underworld kill your fiancé and your sister, and the cops stand idly by and do nothing, there’s only one thing left to do…dance! D’Arcy Drollinger’s tribute to female empowerment and the low-budget exploitation films of the 1970’s delivers high-kicking, ass-whooping comedy. Shit & Champagne is the 2020 precursor to the Opening Night Blockbuster, Lady Champagne.

Girls & Boys is a 2025 Irish romantic drama film directed, written, and edited by Donncha Gilmore, in his feature directorial debut. Charlie, a trans student, has a chance encounter with her childhood best friend Jace at a Halloween party, only Jace doesn’t recognise her. They spend the night together and ghosts from the past reemerge.

Liz, a closeted gay college student pretending to be straight, is still haunted by the gruesome death of her girlfriend, Wendy. Desparate for escape, she joins her friends on a weekend trip away. But as Liz grows close to a mysterious young woman on the trip, unresolved sorrow and long-buried desires stir something unnatural within her. An unseen force that twists suspicion into violence spreads through the group, threatening to consume it. In a society where being seen can be dangerous, Liz must confront not only her grief, but also the brutal cost of being herself.

Stories of self-discovery, identity, and the courage to live authentically.

Jaripeo is a feature hybrid documentary that journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos. What starts as a celebration of tradition, descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing. A reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

Just before graduation, Ethan and Alex pose as trans women in a last ditch effort to quell gay rumors about them. It’s all a joke until Ethan realizes she really is trans. As the school year ends the two best friends must reckon with their changing friendship, coming out, and coming-of-age.

After her father passed away, Summer stopped taking photos. One day, she falls for Yeonwoo, the school’s soccer star, and takes her picture with her late father’s camera. When she develops the film, she finds mysterious photos of her father’s high school lover. In these photos, Summer uncovers a secret about her father. Will she be able to pursue her first love and uncover her father’s hidden truth?

Celebrating the people and connections that shape our shared community — reminding us that community is something we create together.

We’ll Find Happiness is a passionate and sexually-charged romance between two immigrants, juxtaposing their past journey to the West with the fraught realities of their present in a new country. Moroccan refugee Saad lives in Canada with his lover Reza, an Iranian asylum-seeker, but their bliss is short-lived: Reza suddenly faces deportation back to Iran. Capturing the precarious bureaucracy of the immigrant experience through an unflinching queer gaze, the film brims with complex emotion and desire as desperation begins to overtake their quest for freedom.

Bold short films that turn the lens inward, exploring the critical issues, tensions, and conversations shaping the LGBTQ+ community from within.

Filmmaker Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager Frances (Aud Mason-Hyde) to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather, lovingly known as “Jimpa” (John Lithgow). When Frances expresses a desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad, Hannah is forced to reconsider her parenting beliefs and the stories she has long told about her family. Told with empathy, humor, compassion, and joy, Jimpa celebrates the unique loves and challenges of a modern queer family across three generations.

Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trailblazing trans Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets other groundbreaking scientists exploring other animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more. Narrated by Elliot Page.