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- DirectorMarika BeikuAleksandr GordonAndrei TarkovskyStarsYuliy FaytAleksandr GordonValentin VinogradovTwo men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill.
- DirectorPaul Thomas AndersonStarsThom YorkeDajana RoncioneFrida Dam SeidelIn a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead scores and stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
- DirectorYukio MishimaStarsYukio MishimaYoshiko TsuruokaA Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.
- DirectorGaspar NoéStarsPhilippe NahonBlandine LenoirFrankie PainAfter a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorSaul GilbertAlejandro JodorowskyRuth MichellyStarsDenise BrossotRolande PolyaAlejandro JodorowskyA short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsJessica HoareMia JenkinsCallum May5 teens try to discover what happens when you die.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsJean TarisJean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsAbel JacquinAlexandre O'NeillA surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsClaudio BrookSilvia PinalEnrique Álvarez FélixSimon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsTotòNinetto DavoliFranco FranchiSome puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsPier Paolo PasoliniDocumentary footage of the city of Sana'a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city's architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsIsabel MestresFernando HilbeckAgustín AlmodóvarOne of the first creations of genius dandelion in sunglasses.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MachiPenélope CruzMarta AledoThe story of genius dandelion in glasses about an aspiring writer obsessed with the desire to eat a man's legs.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsTilda SwintonAgustín AlmodóvarMiguel AlmodóvarA woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
- DirectorDavid LynchA short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
- DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesSusan FoxJohn Barrymore
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsSamson De BrierMarjorie CameronJoan WhitneyHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence.
- DirectorSolangeStarsAdam Jabari DavisJessica FigaroWHEN I GET HOME finds multidisciplinary artist Solange Knowles's deeply introspective vision of a spiritual expedition reckoning with the question "Where is home?" Accompanying her acclaimed 2019 album of the same name, the film taps imagery of her hometown's (Houston, TX) culture with flights of surrealism spotlighting Black cowboys, space, futurist worlds, and ritualistic movements that characterize evolution as a recurring presence. Solange explores concepts of origin, fear, safety, and reclamation through the power of ancestral roots and the creation of one's own kaleidoscopic universe. Presented here in Solange's director's cut, WHEN I GET HOME is a dazzling immersion into the imagination of an artist whose vision knows no bounds.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsWalter SteinerWerner HerzogA study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
- DirectorLuca GuadagninoStarsJulianne MooreMarthe KellerKyle MacLachlanFrancesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York and must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerA human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
- DirectorKenneth AngerStarsErnie AlloBruce ByronFrank CarifiA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAt a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageMyrrena SchwegmannJane WodeningStan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsArthur V. JohnsonLinda ArvidsonGladys EganIn this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.
- DirectorMichael RobinsonA very special episode of television's Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. Tropes of video art and family entertainment face off in a luminous orgy neither can survive.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiAndrzej TitkowBlind war veterans tell stories about loss, war, will to live and their dreams.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiPeople of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- DirectorLynne RamsayStarsBrigitte LacombeLynne RamsayDaniel BlumbergFramed round a candid conversation between the photographer Brigitte Lacombe and the film maker discussing their process and fascination with images as well as Brigitte's close relationship to her sister Marian Lacombe (whom she works and travels with). Lynne sets up and films a real time photo shoot for Brigitte, selecting a "cast" for her to photograph with a theme of sisters and creative siblings, allowing us to closely observe the photographer at work. A cast of some true relations, close friend's considered sisters and "siblings" with modern re-definitions of family not connected by blood. An insight into Brigitte's creative process, her obsession with taking pictures and how her lens defines her relationship with her subjects and the world.
- DirectorJan KounenStarsDominique BettenfeldValérie DruguetMichel VuillermozAn old aztec statue brought back from Mexico to France by a transvestite and an acrobat suddenly releases El Vibro, a.k.a. Vibroboy, a superhero endowed with a phallic driller...
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorHans RichterStarsWerner GraeffWalter GronostayPaul HindemithHans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
- DirectorRené ClairStarsJean BörlinInge FrïssFrancis PicabiaAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsYvetteSolbjørg HøjfeldtAnne-Lise GaboldA troubled and solitary woman who suffers from an acute light sensitivity summons the strength to escape her persistent trials; however, the fateful morning which is only hours away, still seems so distant and pale. Can she take the step?
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsDorothée BlanckAntoine BourseillerAndré RousseletImpressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsRoger CoggioAnne OlivierJacopo NiziA humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJean VardaTom LuddyAgnès VardaWhile in San Francisco for the promotion of her last film in October 1967, Agnès Varda gets to know a relative she had never heard of before. This unknown uncle lives on a boat, is a painter, has adopted a hippie lifestyle and loves life.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsBill BrentHuey P. NewtonStokely CarmichaelA short film of interviews and protests at a rally to free Huey P. Newton.
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaYolande BeaulieuGuy BelmontA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsGermaine DermozMadeleine GuittyJean d'YdAn unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
- DirectorJean RenoirJean TédescoStarsCatherine HesslingEric BarclayJean StormAn impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
- DirectorEd EmshwillerStarsStoney EmshwillerSusan EmshwillerEmshwiller made this film on a Ford Foundation grant, and in his original proposal to the Ford Foundation, he outlined the film as "something that deals with subjective reality, the emotional sense of what one's perception of the total environment is -- sexual, physical, social, time, space, life, death."
- DirectorJean RouchStarsJean RouchA documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
- DirectorPedro Pablo CeledónEnrique LihnStarsFelipe AllendeConception BalmesJosé BalmesA political satire shot in cinema vérité style calling for the end of the Pinochet regime in Chile. Dissident writer Enrique Lihn solicits the participation of local artists, poets and intellectuals to condemn the thirteen years dictatorship.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsDamien BonnardEmma StoneSilent short film, set on the Greek Cycladic island of Tenos. A woman in black is mourning inside a simple house. Reality blends with dreamy imagination, and tradition with insidious desires.
- DirectorHideshi HinoStarsHiroshi TamuraKirara YûgaoAnja BlagojevicLate at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.
- DirectorAlbert LamorisseStarsPascal LamorisseSabine LamorisseGeorges SellierA red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
- DirectorAlex AvellaAlessandro De LeoStarsJoi JohannssonAomi MuyockMads ReutherA mysterious encounter between a woman and what appears to be an alien, reveals itself as a play, a prison our protagonists are doomed to live within forever.
- DirectorRichard KernStarsJap AnneIce QueenLittle LindaKern plays himself as he uses his models to fulfilling his sadistic control fantasies with mixed results.
- DirectorJonathan GlazerStarsSusanne BrownLee ByfordChristopher JuppA masked mob cruelly punish a lone masked man in this nightmarish short film.