Two queer women recall their awkward, closeted high school days of kissing boys and straight-girl crushes.

Inspired by a true story, I Bleed — winner of the Silver Hugo for Best Animated Short at the Chicago International Film Festival — is the intimate confession of a person living with HIV. Whirlwind of emotions. The first sensations. An animation film which tries to demystify issues that, to this day, persist in society’s imagination about the virus.

Syd is a Black, queer, masculine of center artist working a soul-sucking office job to pay the bills. Syd’s coworkers are ignorant, their boss is a performative #bosslady feminist, and they just got slammed with more work and no raise. So when a lottery loving coworker convinces them to enter yet another office pool, Syd cashes in on leaving the office life a little too soon.

After an unexpected one night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.