21st Century Cinema
140 Episodes
Explore the best of contemporary cinema from around the world.
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2046
Episode 1
Directed by Wong Kar Wai • 2004 • Hong Kong
Starring Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Gong Li, Faye WongWong 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...
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1:35:49Episode 2
After Yang
Episode 2
Directed by Kogonada • 2021 • United States
Starring Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma TjandrawidjajaWhen 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 ...
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Teknolust
Episode 3
Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson • 2002 • United States
Starring Tilda Swinton, Jeremy Davies, James UrbaniakTilda 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...
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50:17Episode 4
Life After BOB: The Chalice Study
Episode 4
Directed by Ian Cheng • 2021 • United States
Starring Poonam Basu, Cherami Leigh, Dana LeeIn 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 ...
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33:51Episode 5
Ennui ennui
Episode 5
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 6
Os humores artificiais
Episode 6
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 7
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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1:07:38Episode 8
Will-o’-the-Wisp
Episode 8
Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues • 2022 • France, Portugal
Starring Mauro Costa, André Cabral, Joel BrancoA 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...
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Old Man
Episode 9
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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Episode 10
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2021 • United States
Starring Curie Choi, Alicia Novella VasquezVivid 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...
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03:43Episode 11
I Love You So Much
Episode 11
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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1:46:49Episode 12
Mother of George
Episode 12
Directed by Andrew Dosunmu • 2013 • Nigeria, United States
Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Danai Gurira, Yaya AlafiaPhotographer 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...
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1:39:23Episode 13
Summer 1993
Episode 13
Directed by Carla Simón • 2017 • Spain
Starring Laia Artigas, Bruna Cusí, David VerdaguerSix-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...
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First
Episode 15
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Mae Wangmo, Anne Hanavan, Angel CruzA 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...
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1:33:19Episode 18
Madeline’s Madeline
Episode 18
Directed by Josephine Decker • 2018 • United States
Starring Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda JulyJosephine 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...
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28:13Episode 19
Negative Two
Episode 19
Directed by Micaela Durand and Daniel Chew • 2019 • United States
Starring Eric Lee, Sean Dunn, Matthew RaviottaA 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...
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Lan Yu
Episode 21
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 22
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...
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1:25:54Episode 23
Southern Comfort
Episode 23
Directed by Kate Davis • 2001 • United States
Starring Robert Eads, Lola Cola, Maxwell Scott AndersonA 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...
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26:23Episode 24
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me Here
Episode 24
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...