Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Faye Wong

Wong Kar Wai’s loose sequel to IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE combines that film’s languorous air of romantic longing with a dizzying time-hopping structure and avant-sci-fi twist. Tony Leung Chiu Wai reprises his...

Directed by Kogonada • 2021 • United States
Starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja

When his young daughter’s beloved companion—an android named Yang (Justin H. Min)—malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers ...

Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2002 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James Urbaniak

Tilda Swinton plays four roles in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s feminist sci-fi brain-bender about Rosetta Stone and her three Self-Replicating Automatons, (SRAs), which she cloned from her own...

Directed by Ian Cheng • 2021 • United States
Starring Poonam Basu, Cherami Leigh, Dana Lee

In this innovative anime created by artist Ian Cheng in the Unity game engine, neural engineer Dr. Wong installs an experimental AI named BOB (“Bag of Beliefs”) into the nervous system of his ten-year-old ...

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2013 • France
Starring Edith Scob, Laetitia Dosch, Omid Rawendah

With 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.

Directed by Gabriel Abrantes • 2016 • Portugal
Starring Margarida Lucas, Amanda Rodarte, Gilda Nomacce

Taking 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...

Directed by Hlynur Pálmason • 2022 • Iceland, Denmark
Starring Elliott Crosset Hove, Vic Carmen Sonne, Ingvar Sigurdsson

The 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...

Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues • 2022 • France, Portugal
Starring Mauro Costa, André Cabral, Joel Branco

A rapturously queer, ecologically minded, antiroyalist musical fantasia, WILL-O’-THE-WISP finds the ever-audacious João Pedro Rodrigues (The Ornithologist) at his most playfully and pleasur...

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.

Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2021 • United States
Starring Curie Choi, Alicia Novella Vasquez

Vivid interruptions of sound and images fragment the psychic landscape of a thirty-eight-year-old woman who becomes obsessed with the social-media presence of the young woman who broke u...

Directed by Leah Shore • 2014 • United States
Starring Leah Shore, Jarret Kerr

Pillow talk takes a surreal turn in a shape-shifting blend of live action and animation.

Directed by Andrew Dosunmu • 2013 • Nigeria, United States
Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Yaya Alafia

Photographer turned filmmaker Andrew Dosumnu’s eye for striking compositions and vibrant colors is on resplendent display in this sensuous visual feast, a heartrending immigrant’s tal...

Directed by Carla Simón • 2017 • Spain
Starring Laia Artigas, Bruna Cusí, David Verdaguer

Six-year-old Frida (Laia Artigas) looks on in silence as the last objects from her recently deceased mother’s apartment in Barcelona are placed in boxes. Although her aunt, uncle, and younger cousin Anna (P...

Directed by Leah Shore • 2021 • United States
Starring Sarah Ellen Stephens, Karl Jacob, Brian W. Smith

How does one get laid in the midst of a global pandemic? A woman seeks release for her locked-down libido, with surreal results.

Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Mae Wangmo, Anne Hanavan, Angel Cruz

A teenager lives her life, toggling seamlessly between her physical and digital selves. She walks over a bridge at sunrise, follows a stranger through the streets of the city, and meet...

Directed by Leah Shore • 2018 • United States
Starring Jarret Kerr, Jennifer Prediger

On the day of her lover’s funeral, a pregnant woman works through her grief in an unexpectedly kinky way.

Directed by Leah Shore • 2015 • United States
Starring Margaret Singer, Sarah Ellen Stephens

In a secret sex club in Brooklyn, a queer couple unleash upon each other a drug-induced existential barrage of delusions and broken dreams.

Directed by Josephine Decker • 2018 • United States
Starring Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July

Josephine Decker’s psychodramatic revelation features a riveting debut performance from Helena Howard as Madeline, a teenage girl who has become an integral part of a prestigious experimental t...

Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Eric Lee, Sean Dunn, Matthew Raviotta

A twentysomething gay man develops a relationship over text messages with a stranger he meets on a dating app. Their exchange becomes increasingly intimate as the protagonist navigate...

Directed by Leah Shore • 2021 • United States

An animated outer-space odyssey puts Einstein’s theory of relativity to the test.

Directed by Stanley Kwan • 2001 • Hong Kong, China
Starring Liu Ye, Hu Jun, Huatong Li

Filmed 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...

Directed by Marvin Lemus • 2015 • United States
Starring Vico Ortiz, Jessica Camacho, Natalia Cordova-Buckley

Vico 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...

Directed by Kate Davis • 2001 • United States
Starring Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott Anderson

A deeply life-affirming film about death, this richly humanist documentary follows the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a trans man living in rural Georgia who was refused treatment for hi...

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...