Directed by Onyeka Igwe • 2023 • United Kingdom
Starring Renee Bailey, Tomi Ogunjobi, Emmanuel Kojo

What happened in 1940s London when two women of different generations, both fighting against colonialism, came together to put their fervor and imagination into writing a revolutionary play?

Directed by Daphne Xu • 2024 • United States

A playful audiovisual experiment layers ping pong games at New York City’s Seward Park with advice from an immigration lawyer.

Directed by Svetlana Romanova • 2023 • Russia

Filmed in the Yakutian Arctic and constructed out of personal poems and notes, this visual essay poses questions about our perception of contemporaneity and image production’s intersection with the creation of narratives around the idea of love (roma...

Directed by Xiaolu Wang • 2024 • United States

A one-take recording captures a family’s visit to the bamboo green at the foot of the Helan Mountains.

Directed by Samy Benammar • 2024 • Algeria, Canada

“Mom, you brought me back to our homeland. All I know about these harsh landscapes I learned from books written by the hand that burned these mountains. I try to undo the colonial myths engraved into my memory, but the hills escape my gaze. Do y...

Directed by Naghmeh Abbasi • 2022 • Iran, Canada

Through an interrogation of the landscape of Iran’s Shaho Mountain, LANDSCAPE SUSPENDED reflects on the sociopolitical history and violence that surround the people who reside in the region.

Directed by Antoinetta Angelidi • 2008 • Greece

Filmed in 1980 and completed in 2008, Antoinetta Angelidi’s candid self-portrait is a song to life and an incantatory vision of pregnancy as a kind of ritual.

Directed by Razan AlSalah • 2024 • Canada, Lebanon, Palestine

Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice, from land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. A STONE’S THROW trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and...

Directed by Michel Khleifi • 1984 • Palestine, Belgium

Ma’loul is a Palestinian village in Galilee which was destroyed by the Israeli armed forces in 1948. The former inhabitants are only allowed to visit once a year, on the anniversary of Israel’s independence, and have developed a new traditio...

Directed by Little Egypt Collective • 2024 • United States

In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist gathers sonic ephemera as he revisits the flat fields where once stood Pyramid Courts—the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, C...

Directed by Meriem Bennani • 2018–2021 • Morocco

Meriem Bennani conjures an immersive augmented-reality world in the first two parts of a trilogy that issues a wild, up-to-the-minute commentary on diasporic cultures and the West’s dystopian immigration policies. A talking crocodile named Fiona a...

Directed by Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa • 2018 • Uganda, Austria

PROMISED LANDS is a fragmentary, essayistic meditation on (among other things) art, fact, fiction, memory, rights to land, place, and displacement that marks the culmination of a substantial body of work by the late artist Emma Wolukau-W...

Directed by Søren Lind and Larissa Sansour • 2022 • United Kingdom, Denmark

AS IF NO MISFORTUNE HAD OCCURRED IN THE NIGHT is a three-channel video work featuring an Arabic-language opera on loss, mourning, and inherited trauma, performed by Palestinian soprano Nour Darwish and accompanied by arc...

Directed by Paul Shemisi, Nizar Saleh, Rob Jacobs, and Anne Reijniers • 2022 • Congo, Belgium

Filmmakers Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh travel from the Democratic Republic of Congo to Germany for a screening of their new film. During a layover in Angola, they’re stopped at the airport because the ...

Directed by Lawrence Lek • 2022 • United Kingdom, South Korea

In the abandoned smart city of SimBeijing, a self-driving police car confronts their existential troubles with their built-in AI therapist in this Sinofuturist exploration of identity, surveillance, and empathy.

Directed by Adam Piron • 2022 • United States

YAANGNA PLAYS ITSELF is an ode to the memories of El Aliso, the sycamore tree that once stood at the center of Yaangna, the Indigenous Gabrieleno village that Los Angeles grew out from.

Directed by Miryam Charles • 2023 • Canada
Starring Schelby Jean-Baptiste, Florence Blain Mbaye

Following the shooting of a documentary on the death of her daughter, a mother reflects on her own life and especially on the passing of time.

Directed by Sofia Theodore-Pierce • 2023 • United States

A year of stormy weather and temporal rupture is recalled in fragments in this collage of seizure dreams, horses, long-distance conversations from bed, and loose reenactments from Marguerite Duras’s BAXTER, VERA BAXTER.

Directed by Esy Casey • 2023 • Philippines, United States

In this contemplation on the meanings of movement in the experience of migration, the grace and skill of a Filipina domestic worker are juxtaposed with devotional dances to the Santo Niño statue that Magellan brought to the islands in 152...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...

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...

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 Tulapop Saenjaroen • 2021 • Thailand, Singapore
Starring Anongnart Yusananda, Aacharee Ungsriwong, Brett Burgs

SQUISH! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary ...

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...