Directed by Rafael Manuel • 2020 • Philippines, United Kingdom
Starring Jorybel Agotto, Sunshine Teodoro, Micah Musah

The 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...

Directed by Rand Abou Fakher • 2021 • Belgium
Starring Rahaf Alobeid, Amina Al Haj, Luna Al Obeid

In 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...

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 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 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 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 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 Alisha Tejpal • 2020 • India, United States
Starring Shobha Dangale, Ananya Tuli, Kirti Kadam

Through a succession of rigorously controlled compositions, the world of a young domestic worker (Shobha Dangle) in an upper-class Mumbai household gradually comes into focus—her day-to-day ...

Directed by Ian Barling • 2021 • United States
Starring Will Patton, Philip Ettinger, Brett Diggs

On a winter night in Atlantic City, the manager of a defunct casino must reckon with his parental failures when his unruly son comes to him in desperate need of help.

Directed by Olive Nwosu • United Kingdom, Nigeria • 2021
Starring Teniola Aladese, Sheila Chukwulozie, Loveth Onyemaobi

Salewa (Sheila Chukwulozie), a young queer woman living with her wife in London, returns to her hometown in Nigeria for her mother’s funeral. There, she confronts her complex f...

Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ammin Acha-ur, Pablo Quintos

This sublime winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival follows Lynn (Ammin Acha-ur), who leaves her family’s remote home behind to traverse the harrowing roads o...

Directed by Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, and Chloé Farr • 2022 • France
Starring William Lebghil, Alma Jodorowsky

Death is only the beginning in this fantastically phantasmagoric animated odyssey, which imagines heaven in the boldly colorful, psychedelic style of George Dunning’s Beatles clas...

Directed by Dania Bdeir • 2022 • Lebanon, France
Starring Khansa, Kamal Saleh, Hassan Aqqoul

Queer alienation gives way to an ecstatic experience of liberation in Dania Bdeir’s dazzlingly conceived short, a Sundance prizewinner. One morning, Mohammad (Khansa), a Syrian migrant working constructi...

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg • 1993 • Denmark
Starring Thomas Bo Larsen, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Martin Brygmann

This Student Academy Award–nominated short film by future Dogme 95 revolutionary Thomas Vinterberg displays his facility for rendering the raw-nerve emotional extremes of the human e...