21st Century Cinema
116 Episodes
Explore the best of contemporary cinema from around the world.
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08:48Episode 1
Somewhere a Destination
Episode 1
Directed by Celeste Lapida • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Celeste Lapida“ . . . people who move away from the gender they were assigned at birth [. . .] want to strike out toward some new location, some space not yet clearly defined or concretely occupied; [. . .] the movement across a socially ...
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22:57Episode 2
Rocks in a Windless Wadi
Episode 2
Directed by EJ Gagui • 2022 • Philippines
Three men describe their long-buried childhood traumas as mysterious, ghostly images shot around a wadi flicker before our eyes.
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Dikit
Episode 3
Directed by Gabriela Serrano • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Mariana Serrano, Mika Zarcal, Jarrett Cross PintoA young woman with a monstrous secret desperately longs for a different body. When the new couple in town moves in next door, she sees her chance to finally get one.
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19:02Episode 4
the river that never ends
Episode 4
Directed by JT Trinidad • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Emerald Romero, Hesus Deligero, Ron GoAlong a river undergoing major development, Baby, a middle-aged trans woman, shuttles between her job as a companion-for-hire for strangers and her duty to her father. As the people around Baby start to ...
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14:07Episode 5
It’s Raining Frogs Outside
Episode 5
Directed by Maria Estela Paiso • 2021 • Philippines
Starring Alyana CabralAs the apocalypse looms, a young Filipino woman is forced to return to her childhood home in the province of Zambales. There, as frogs rain down from the sky, she confronts traumatic memories that condense into a surreal ...
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Hito
Episode 7
Directed by Stephen Lopez • 2023 • Philippines
Starring Kyrie Allison Samodio, Jun Jun Quintana, Bor OcampoBetween nuclear reactors and military curfews, fourteen-year-old Jani lives in a dystopian world oppressively devoid of empathy. Together, she and her slippery new friend Kiefer the talkin...
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1:40:20Episode 8
The Breaking Ice
Episode 8
Directed by Anthony Chen • 2023 • China, Singapore
Starring Zhou Dongyu, Liu Haoran, Qu ChuxiaoThree lost souls find tentative connection in a frozen world in this delicate, lyrical tone poem of youthful alienation and longing. In cold, wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northeastern border, young...
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20:06Episode 9
i get so sad sometimes
Episode 9
Directed by Trishtan Perez • 2021 • Philippines
Starring JC Santiago, Karl Louie Caminade, Russ LigtasIn the small town of Pagadian in the Philippines, a gay teenager eagerly waits for a mature man to finally reveal his face after developing an anonymous sexual relationship with him online.
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18:07Episode 10
The Gossips of Cicadidae
Episode 10
Directed by Vahn Leinard Pascual • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Rolando Inocencio, AJ Benoza, Alleison DimatulacDrawing on silent-film aesthetics from a bygone era, this mesmerizing monochrome short tells a story of forbidden love. A young boy struggles with feeling trapped in his inherited role...
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1:31:46Episode 11
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Episode 11
Directed by John Cameron Mitchell • 2001 • United States
Starring John Cameron Mitchell, Andrea Martin, Michael PittWith this trailblazing musical, writer-director-star John Cameron Mitchell and composer-lyricist Stephen Trask brought their signature creation from stage to screen for a movie...
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16:26Episode 12
Bold Eagle
Episode 12
Directed by Whammy Alcazaren • 2022 • Philippines
Starring Ricky Davao, Gio Gahol, luckymaybe1923Trapped at home with his talking cat, a man seeks refuge in the strong arms of strange men as together they venture deep down into the nether regions of the Internet in search of true happiness. Cau...
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3:18:14Episode 13
About Dry Grasses
Episode 13
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan • 2023 • Turkey
Starring Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici -
33:51Episode 14
Ennui ennui
Episode 14
Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2013 • France
Starring Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch, Omid RawendahWith a cast featuring Edith Scob and Esther Garrel, this delirious espionage farce resembles what might have happened if ZERO DARK THIRTY had been written by Georges Bataille.
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29:10Episode 15
Os humores artificiais
Episode 15
Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2016 • Portugal
Starring Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda NomacceTaking Wittgenstein’s assertion that the most profound problems can only be discussed in the form of jokes as a starting point, OS HUMORES ARTIFICIAIS (“The Artificial Humors”) combines old-Hol...
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Godland
Episode 16
Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar SigurdssonThe struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychol...
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Old Man
Episode 17
Directed by Leah Shore • 2012 • United States
For more then 20 years Charles Manson has refused to communicate to the outside world. Until now. These are actual never before heard phone conversations between Canadian best selling author Marlin Marynick and Charles Manson.
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03:43Episode 18
I Love You So Much
Episode 18
Directed by Leah Shore • 2014 • United States
Starring Leah Shore, Jarret KerrPillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.
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Lan Yu
Episode 23
Directed by Stanley Kwan • 2001 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Huatong LiFilmed in secret in Beijing, this tender gay romance by Stanley Kwan combines the timeless conventions of classic melodrama with a radically frank depiction of queer intimacy as it traces, over the course of y...
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Vámonos
Episode 24
Directed by Marvin Lemus • 2015 • United States
Starring Vico Ortiz, Jessica Camacho, Natalia Cordova-BuckleyVico Ortiz (OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH) and Jessica Camacho (ALL RISE, THE FLASH, WATCHMEN) costar in this beautiful story about what it looks like to show up as an ally for our gender-nonconf...