1. My Father, My Mother (Ang Tatay Kong Nanay)
Coring, a gay beautician, is left with a baby by his former ward, Dennis. The baby grows up thinking that Coring is his real father. Everything seems to be smooth until the kid's mother suddenly shows up to claim her son.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
2. The Brig
An ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and shocking physical and mental degradation and abuse.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
3. The Disciple (Lärjungen)
The Disciple is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives in the Åland Islands in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles desperately to stay on and makes friends with Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts to favor Karl over his own son.
It has an average vote of 6.3 on TMDB.
4. The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
5. The King in Yellow
In a place forgotten by man, before the primordial forces that bind the universe settled, time stood still. Within maddening dreams, they found order, they found a purpose. They need their King.
6. Old Man/Sick Man/Shout (Viejito/Enfermito/Grito)
Ananias, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and immigrant, performs the folkloric Danza de los Viejitos . Originally from Michoacán, Mexico, where the dance originates, Ananias interprets its movements through the lens of his spirituality, his long-term HIV-related disabilities, and his search for a place in the world.
7. That Child with AID$ (Aquela Criança com AiD$)
That Child with AID$ tells the story of Brazilian advocate and artist Lili Nascimento, who was born with HIV in 1990. Lili has worked to expand narratives about living with HIV beyond the limited images and ideologies that permeate the AIDS industry.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. Heart Murmurs (Heart Murmurs)
Heart Murmurs is a poetic dialogue between the filmmaker and Dean, a young man living in Hong Kong. In reflecting on his experience living with a congenital disability and HIV during the first years of the COVID pandemic, Dean expresses his sense of self in the face of regular medical challenges.
9. This Bed I Made
This Bed I Made presents the bed as a place of solace and agency beyond just a site of illness or isolation. Through the shared stories of two Filipino men living with HIV, the video explores modes of care, restoration, and abundance in the midst of pandemic pervasion.
10. Losing the Light
Losing the Light reflects the artist's bitter battle to stay in this world as a long-term survivor of AIDS who has lost his vision to CMV retinitis. An experimental self-portrait, the video evokes the dissolution and fragmentation of the artists body, representing the impact of blindness, long-term HIV infection, and the cumulative effects of decades of antiretroviral medication.
11. A Witch Lives In the Attic
A witch and other strange things live in the attic above lonely, dope-addled artist, Grey Neilson. After meeting Renee, Grey struggles to appease these beings, as she tries to find her place in the outside world.
12. G(ode)ard
An experimental tribute to Jean-Luc Godard, his documentary works and his insights in our modern world.
13. The Last Cinema
Cinema clerks Silva and Felix work the final night before their beloved cinema is demolished by private investors. An empty final screening allows them to reflect on the meaning of cinema in an age wherein art no longer occupies physical space.
14. Burnt by the Sun
A surreal mosaic pieced together from fractured memories and childhood recollections as told by an unnamed narrator who relives a traumatic incident from his past. A time when people went about their lives, and yet, they told tales of a predator who stalked the streets at night, sneaking into windows and abducting the innocent; this menace went by one name, Pastor Jessup.
15. Inland Empire
An actress’s perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
It has an average vote of 7.019 on TMDB.
16. Paranoid Park
A teenage skateboarder becomes suspected of being connected with a security guard who suffered a brutal death in a skate park called "Paranoid Park".
It has an average vote of 6.543 on TMDB.
17. Primal Bodies
This fragmented body… usually manifests itself in dreams when the movement of the analysis encounters a certain level of aggressive disintegration in the individual.it then appears in the form of disjointed limbs, growing wings and taking up arms for intestinal persecutions.
18. Womb
in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping, the moon tells me a secret, a confidant As full and bright as I am, this light is not my own and a million light reflections pass over me, the source is bright and endless. She resuscitates the hopeless. Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting.
19. Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
It has an average vote of 6.511 on TMDB.
20. Phenomena
A meditation on film, language, and human nature.