Directed by Rajee Samarasinghe • 2022 • Sri Lanka, United States

“This footage was shot shortly after the civil war in Sri Lanka on the occasion of my mother’s long-delayed reunion with Kamala, the aunt she lived with as a child. Kamala was living a life of solitude at this point and has now sin...

Directed by Younes Ben Slimane • 2021 • France, Tunisia

At night, a stranger digs graves, buries the dead, and watches over them. In the dark, he reveals the personal belongings of the deceased to us. These objects, separated from their owners, bear their scars and story, while others melt until...

Directed by Jessica Beshir • 2021 • Ethiopia, United States, Qatar

A sublime work of trance-state cinema, the debut feature by the Mexican Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir is a hypnotic immersion in the world of rural Ethiopia, a place where one commodity—khat, a euphoria-inducing plant once p...

Directed by Tiff Rekem • 2022 • United States

A fragmentary rumination on an aging father figure and his nearness to the gender-reveal-party fire that scorched the San Bernardino foothills in 2020.

Directed by Ayanna Dozier • 2022 • United States

MAMAN BRIGITTE stitches together the intimacy of a private ritual involving the Voudou loa Maman Brigitte (who governst the barrier between the living and the dead) with the sounds of the body (spitting, running, vomiting, etc.). These “interior” ...

Directed by blackANDwhite • 2007 • United States
Starring David Lynch

This 2007 feature-length film by blackANDwhite, the makers of DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE, was made over the course of two years during the filming of INLAND EMPIRE.

Directed by blackANDwhite • 2007 • United States
Starring David Lynch

This 2007 short film by blackANDwhite, the makers of DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE, features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of INLAND EMPIRE.

Directed by Rhea Storr • 2021 • United Kingdom

MADNESS REMIXED examines the fetishization of Josephine Baker’s body through data-moshing analogue film. What unfolds is a questioning of which images of Black bodies should be reproduced and on what terms.

Directed by Mohammadreza Mayghani • 2021 • Iran
Starring Maryam Hossieni, Yas Farkhonde, Arezou Aali

Confined by her orthodontic headwear, an alienated teenage girl seeks release through a series of transgressions in this surreally stylized vision of adolescent ennui giving way to shocking rebel...

Directed by Ornella Pacchioni • 2021 • France

Thirteen-year-old Lucie is alone during the summer holidays when she meets a mysterious boy named Léo. Though she sees him as a remedy for her loneliness, strange events come to pass as they spend time together.

Directed by Chris Shepherd and David Shrigley • 2005 • United Kingdom
Starring Kevin Eldon

Appropriately crude hand-drawn animation evokes the manic rantings and ramblings of a singularly self-deluded man.

Directed by Eva Vitija • 2022 • Germany, Switzerland
Starring Gwendoline Christie, Annina Butterworth, Marijane Meaker

The life and work of celebrated American writer Patricia Highsmith are revealed through her diaries and notebooks and the intimate reflections of her lovers, friends, and family...

Directed by Marin Håskjold • 2017 • Norway
Starring Jonas Strand Gravli, Sverre Kvamme

The dynamics between friends are challenged when Martin arrives at a Christmas party wearing a dress. As hidden desires come forth, the evening becomes an exploration of gender roles.

Directed by Maria Brendle • 2020 • Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland
Starring Alina Turdumamatova, Nurbek Esengazy Uulu, Madina Talipbek

Nineteen-year-old Sezim wants to fulfill her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she is kidnapped by a group of young men, taken to the hinterlands, and forced ...

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2016 • Lesotho, Germany
Starring Tseko Monaheng

A preacher walks the streets of Lesotho’s capital, Maseru, dragging a mysterious coffin whose contents elicit unexpected—and unscripted—reactions from passersby.

Directed by Deepa Dhanraj • 2011 • India

In Southern India, many family disputes are settled by Jamaats—all-male bodies that apply Islamic Sharia law to cases without allowing women to be present, even to defend themselves. Recognizing this fundamental inequity, a group of women in 2004 establis...

Directed by Deepa Dhanraj • 2006 • India

LOVE IN THE TIME OF AIDS follows a group of kothis (gay men who identify as femme) in Belgaum, a small city in Karnataka, and traces their stories of love, desire, and ostracization, as well as their work with an NGO that promotes safe-sex practices.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2019 • Germany, Lesotho

Part poetic essay, part documentary, this rapturous film by director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese (THIS IS NOT A BURIAL, IT’S A RESURRECTION) analyzes the complexities of his relationship to his native country of Lesotho from his new hom...

Directed by Abbesi Akhamie • 2020 • United States
Starring Baboucarr Camara, Ellie Foumbi, Jennifer Tchiakpe

A single woman’s feelings of loneliness begin to stir when an eccentric African couple moves in to her building.

Directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese • 2014 • Lesotho
Starring Siphiwe Nzima-Ntskhe, Masele Tokane, Chaka Phehlamarole Khalechene

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese made this narrative short film in 2014, inspired by the real-life legend of Lesotho’s only known female stick fighter.

Directed by Lodge Kerrigan • 2004 • United States
Starring Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan

Lodge Kerrigan’s stunningly immersive portrait of a father in crisis is one of the most searing and unforgettable independent films of the early 2000s. William Keane (Damian Lewis in a tour-de-forc...

Directed by Jerry Carlsson • 2021 • Sweden
Starring Richard Sseruwagi, Doreen Ndagire, Lisette Pagler

When Mr. Moro finds out that his ex-partner Adrian, who has been cryogenically preserved for the past forty-three years, will be thawed and brought back to life, he must confront his complex fee...

Directed by Tareque Masud • 2002 • Bangladesh
Starring Nurul Haque, Russell Farazi, Jayanto Chattopadhyay

Set during the turbulent late-1960s period leading up to Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, this lyrical drama tells the story of a family torn apart by religion and war. Anu (Nurul Is...

Directed by Hristo Simeonov • 2019 • Bulgaria
Starring Plamena Stefanova, Margita Gosheva, Borislav Rusev-Bini

With heartrending realism, this powerful portrait of a stolen childhood evokes the world of a young pickpocket who receives an unexpected chance to escape her desperate circumstances.