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Civic
Movie
Directed by Dwayne LeBlanc • 2022 • United States
Starring Barrington DariusThis graceful, deeply atmospheric short follows Booker (Barrington Darius) as he returns to South Central LA after several years away. Confined to the interior of his car, we watch as he interacts with the people and pl...
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Short Films by Leah Shore
1 season
Whether working in animation, live action, or a no-holds-barred blend of the two, underground creative force Leah Shore makes raunchy, hilarious, neon-blasted cinematic transgressions that explode with a feverish, mad-scientist visual energy. Expect shape-shifting surrealism, Day-Glo delirium, an...
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FIRST, NEGATIVE TWO, 38: A Trilogy by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew
1 season
What does it mean to grow up, to live, to love, to lust in a perpetually online world, one in which the promise of human connection is both tantalizingly ever-present and seemingly more elusive than ever before? Replete—like the internet itself—with shimmering, illusory surfaces, this sensorially...
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Tricia’s Wedding
Movie
Directed by Milton Miron • 1971 • United States
Starring Goldie Glitters, Richard Koldewyn, SylvesterRevel in the psychedelic debauchery as underground “acid drag” theater troupe the Cockettes orchestrate a decidedly queer, hysterically funny send-up of the televised wedding of First Daughter T...
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A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Movie
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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The Blindness Series
1 season
A series of eight densely layered experimental video essays by Vietnamese American artist Tran T. Kim-Trang, The Blindness Series encompasses a dizzying array of themes and aesthetic strategies as it explores the many metaphorical resonances surrounding blindness and vision. Ranging in style from...
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Short Films by Fanta Régina Nacro
1 season
The first woman from Burkina Faso to direct a narrative film, Fanta Régina Nacro addresses complex social issues with a gently subversive, lightly comic touch. Tackling everything from AIDS and sexual health to gender roles and relations to the evolving place of tradition within the modern world,...
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Filipiñana
Movie
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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So We Live
Movie
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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Lady of the Night
Movie
Directed by Marin Håskjold • 2017 • Norway
Starring Jonas Strand Gravli, Sverre KvammeThe 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.
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Orthodontics
Movie
Directed by Mohammadreza Mayghani • 2021 • Iran
Starring Maryam Hossieni, Yas Farkhonde, Arezou AaliConfined 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...
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Ala Kachuu – Take and Run
Movie
Directed by Maria Brendle • 2020 • Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland
Starring Alina Turdumamatova, Nurbek Esengazy Uulu, Madina TalipbekNineteen-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 ...
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Lata
Movie
Directed by Alisha Tejpal • 2020 • India, United States
Starring Shobha Dangale, Ananya Tuli, Kirti KadamThrough 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 ...
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Masquerade
Movie
Directed by Olive Nwosu • United Kingdom, Nigeria • 2021
Starring Teniola Aladese, Sheila Chukwulozie, Loveth OnyemaobiSalewa (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...
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The Headhunter’s Daughter
Movie
Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ammin Acha-ur, Pablo QuintosThis 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...
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Goodbye Jerome!
Movie
Directed by Gabrielle Selnet, Adam Sillard, and Chloé Farr • 2022 • France
Starring William Lebghil, Alma JodorowskyDeath 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...
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The Flaherty Presents: Opacity
1 season
Each year the legendary Flaherty Film Seminar invites participants to reconsider their understanding of cinema through a rigorous program of thought-provoking, boundary-breaking works organized around a salient theme. Taking the notion of “Opacity”—defined as that which cannot be reduced by the d...
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Warsha
Movie
Directed by Dania Bdeir • 2022 • Lebanon, France
Starring Khansa, Kamal Saleh, Hassan AqqoulQueer 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...
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Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta
1 season
Heralded by Martin Scorsese as “an anthropologist who speaks with the voice of a poet,” Italian director Vittorio De Seta produced a string of extraordinary short documentaries in the 1950s that distill their subjects to pure cinema. Shooting in vivid color in the rural villages of Sicily, Sardin...