Directed by Pepi Ginsberg • 2022 • United States
Starring Angus O’Brien, JaQwan J. Kelly, Paul Bomba

A young man wrestles with feelings of attraction and fear during an unsettling beachside encounter in this tense, slow-burn study of queer isolation and connection.

Directed by Gustavo Milan • 2020 • Brazil
Starring Samantha Castillo, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Brenda Moreno

While immigrating to Brazil, a Venezuelan mother’s ability to breastfeed causes her fate to become forever intertwined with a young mother and her baby in this powerful, strikingly shot t...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...

Directed by Joel Potrykus • 2023 • United States
Starring Kandy Kapelle, Dani Parker, Joe Anderson

In the latest slacker anthem by underground auteur Joel Potrykus, recent college grads Patty (Kandy Kapelle) and Patti (Dani Parker) enter the workplace seeking gainful unemployment—only to find th...

Directed by Rodney Llaverías • 2022 • Dominican Republic
Starring Marlene De La Cruz

Lush, surreal, wild: this richly sensorial, extravagantly imaginative short by Rodney Llaverías unfolds in a verdant, storybook world, where the middle-aged Dolores (Marlene De La Cruz) lives a hermetic existenc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.