21st Century Cinema
126 Episodes
Explore the best of contemporary cinema from around the world.
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28:13Episode 3
Negative Two
Episode 3
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Eric Lee, Sean Dunn, Matthew RaviottaA twentysomething gay man develops a relationship over text messages with a stranger he meets on a dating app. Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate as the protagonist navigate...
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Lan Yu
Episode 5
Directed by Stanley Kwan • 2001 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Huatong LiFilmed in secret in Beijing, this tender gay romance by Stanley Kwan combines the timeless conventions of classic melodrama with a radically frank depiction of queer intimacy as it traces, over the course of y...
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Vámonos
Episode 6
Directed by Marvin Lemus • 2015 • United States
Starring Vico Ortiz, Jessica Camacho, Natalia Cordova-BuckleyVico Ortiz (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH) and Jessica Camacho (ALL RISE, THE FLASH, WATCHMEN) costar in this beautiful story about what it looks like to show up as an ally for our gender-nonconf...
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26:23Episode 7
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Episode 7
Directed by Érica Sarmet • 2021 • Brazil
Starring Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Lorre MottaThis formally innovative, euphorically sexy short travels through the queer Brazil of past, present, and future as it traces an encounter between an older butch biker and a band of young polyamorous lesb...
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11:17Episode 8
Carne seca
Episode 8
Directed by Jazmin Diaz • 2015 • United States
Starring Joseph T. Campos, Karina Dominguez, Cristian MirandaTwo brothers in rural Mexico have until sunset to sell a cooler of beef—or face their father’s anger.
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1:13:49Episode 9
Cette maison
Episode 9
Directed by Miryam Charles • Canada • 2022
Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye, Marie Yardly KavanaghShot on dreamy 16 mm, the stunning debut feature from Haitian-Canadian filmmaker Miryam Charles resurrects a tragedy that occurred within her own family—the unresolved death of ...
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1:41:20Episode 10
Infernal Affairs
Episode 10
Directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak • 2002 • Hong Kong
Starring Andy Lau Tak-wah, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Wong Chau-sangTwo of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-sta...
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2:00:01Episode 11
Infernal Affairs II
Episode 11
Directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak • 2003 • Hong Kong
Starring Edison Chen Koon-hei, Shawn Yue Man-lok, Anthony Wong Chau-sangThe first of two sequels to follow in the wake of the massively successful INFERNAL AFFAIRS softens the original’s furious pulp punch in favor of something mo...
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1:58:26Episode 12
Infernal Affairs III
Episode 12
Directed by Andrew Lau Wai-keung and Alan Mak • 2003 • Hong Kong
Starring Andy Lau Tak-wah, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Leon LaiTony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah return for the cathartic conclusion of the INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy, which layers on even more deep-cover intrigue while steering the...
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2:01:42Episode 13
Demonlover
Episode 13
Directed by Olivier Assayas • 2002 • France
Starring Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny“No one sees anything. Ever. They watch, but they don’t understand.” So observes Connie Nielsen in Olivier Assayas’s hallucinatory, globe-spanning DEMONLOVER, a postmodern neonoir thriller and med...
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18:32Episode 14
Rat Pack Rat
Episode 14
Directed by Todd Rohal • 2014 • United States
Starring Eddie Rouse, Steve Little, Margie BeegleA Sammy Davis Jr. impersonator, hired to visit with a loyal Rat Pack fan, finds himself delivering last rites at the boy’s bedside.
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12:15Episode 15
The Rabbit Hunt
Episode 15
Directed by Patrick Bresnan • 2017 • United States
In the Florida Everglades, rabbit hunting is considered a rite of passage for young men. THE RABBIT HUNT follows seventeen-year-old Chris and his family as they hunt in the fields of the largest industrial sugar farms in the U.S. The film record...
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13:13Episode 16
Oliver Sees Indigo
Episode 16
Directed by Ryan Clancy • 2022 • United States
This film enacts an attempt to regain attachment following a period of heroin addiction, near-death experiences, and oxytocin deficiency. The camera shifts between moments of fragile devotion as it searches for a higher power in threads of shared su...
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16:58Episode 17
So We Live
Episode 17
Directed by Rand Abou Fakher • 2021 • Belgium
Starring Rahaf Alobeid, Amina Al Haj, Luna Al ObeidIn this claustrophobic study of life during wartime, a family in a conflict-ravaged country spends what seems to be a normal evening together. Their conversations shift between casual matters of dai...
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3:00:22Episode 18
Inland Empire
Episode 18
Directed by David Lynch • 2006 • United States
Starring Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux“Strange, what love does.” The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble . . . David Lynch’s first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditatio...
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24:05Episode 19
Filipiñana
Episode 19
Directed by Rafael Manuel • 2020 • Philippines, United Kingdom
Starring Jorybel Agotto, Sunshine Teodoro, Micah MusahThe self-contained cosmos of a country-club golf course serves as a microcosm of Filipino society in this sharply observed miniature. New “tee-girl” Isabel still has to learn the...
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30:12Episode 20
Home When You Return
Episode 20
Directed by Carl Elsaesser • 2021 • United States
“Stretching and blurring the boundaries of video essay, experimental film, and home movie, traces of a 1950s homemade melodrama by amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin intermingle with a mournful homage to the author’s grandmother and her vacat...
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Bintou
Episode 21
Directed by Fanta Régina Nacro • 2001 • Burkina Faso
Starring Alima Salouka, Hyppolite OuangrawaBintou wants to make sure that her daughter goes to school, but her husband Abel doesn't think it’s worth it because there is only enough money for the boys’ education. Bintou won’t give up and start...
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04:14Episode 22
Heron 1954–2002
Episode 22
Directed by Alexis McCrimmon • 2022 • United States
HERON 1954–2002 is a visual eulogy that taps into the phenomena of makeshift memorials and small gestures of mourning. Honoring the life of a loved one who died due to an accidental opioid overdose, the film materializes the process of overdue ...
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1:39:00Episode 23
Songs from the Second Floor
Episode 23
Directed by Roy Andersson • 2000 • Sweden
Starring Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C. W. CarlssonFollowing a twenty-five year break from feature filmmaking, Swedish existentialist Roy Andersson reintroduced his singular vision to the world with this by turns bleak and mordantly funny vision o...
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36:17Episode 24
Three Songs Without Z.
Episode 24
Directed by Karthik Pandian and Andros Zins-Browne • 2022 • United States
Starring Zakaria AlmoutlakA portrait of Zakaria Almoutlak, a sculptor and media activist from Homs, Syria, who fled the civil war in 2015.