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  • Civic

    Movie

    Directed by Dwayne LeBlanc • 2022 • United States
    Starring Barrington Darius

    This 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tricia’s Wedding

    Movie

    Directed by Milton Miron • 1971 • United States
    Starring Goldie Glitters, Richard Koldewyn, Sylvester

    Revel 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...

  • A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here

    Movie

    Directed by Érica Sarmet • 2021 • Brazil
    Starring Zélia Duncan, Bruna Linzmeyer, Lorre Motta

    This 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • Filipiñana

    Movie

    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...

  • So We Live

    Movie

    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...

  • Lady of the Night

    Movie

    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.

  • Who I Am and What I Want

    Movie

    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.

  • Orthodontics

    Movie

    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...

  • Bleue

    Movie

    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.

  • The Couple Next Door

    Movie

    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.

  • Ala Kachuu – Take and Run

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Lata
    Movie

    Lata

    Movie

    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 ...

  • Safe
    Movie

    Safe

    Movie

    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.

  • Masquerade

    Movie

    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...

  • Cinema Verité Shorts

    1 season

  • The Headhunter’s Daughter

    Movie

    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...

  • Goodbye Jerome!

    Movie

    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...

  • 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...

  • Warsha

    Movie

    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...

  • 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...