Strings of dark, perverse, hilarious, and bizarre fantasies run through this quartet of bold visions from across the globe. After a recent breakup with a boy named David, a young man spirals down a mind-bending rabbit hole of unusual past encounters with other Davids. In Malaysia, a shy teenager finds herself drawn to the village bad girl, who harbors a nocturnal secret in It’s Easier to Raise Cattle.

Ester Martin Bergsmark (Something Must Break, Frameline38) returns with Swedish Candy, Some Violence and a Bit of Cat, a surreal, comical, and transgressive triptych of tales taking on consumption, gluttony, and gender. Bergsmark’s three interwoven strands include a glossy corporate infomercial celebrating the unsettling production of gelatin, and two parallel stories of girls exploring the thin boundary between the grotesque and delectable. Performance artists Eva Johansson and Louise Löwenberg portray eerily close cousins who find their rehearsal of a notorious Tarzan & Jane routine going awry thanks to a vodka-filled watermelon.

In Islands, winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes, garçon terrible Yann Gonzalez blurs the lines between wet dream and lucid nightmare, as a macabre, sensual stage performance sends a ripple of erotic desires through its audience and performers in visually sumptuous detail.