List of avant-garde films of the 2020s

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This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 2020s.

TitleDirectorCastCountryNotesRef.
2020
KRABI, 2562 Ben Rivers, Anocha Suwichakornpong UK
Look Then Bellow Ben Rivers UK
Friend of the World Brian Patrick Butler Nick Young, Alexandra Slade, Michael C. Burgess, Kathryn Schott, Kevin Smith, Luke Pensabene, Neil Raymond Ricco US [1]
A Metamorfose dos Pássaros Catarina Vasconcelos Portugal [2]
Movie That Invites Pausing Ken Jacobs US [3]
Red Moon TideLois Patiño Spain [4]
The Whole Shebang Ken Jacobs US [5]
The Eyes of Summer Rajee Samarasinghe Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Lanka RajapaksaSri Lanka / USA [6]
2021
2020 Friedl vom Grölle Austria [7]
An Approximation of their Barbarous MannersChristian SerritielloItaly
CitadelJohn SmithUnited Kingdom [8]
Devil's PeakSimon LuHong Kong
Double Wow Ken Jacobs US [9]
earthearthearthDaïchi SaïtoCanada/Japan [10]
Ember Days Nathaniel Dorsky US [11]
Emergence CollapseRainer KohlbergerAustria
Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma míoMateo VegaNetherlands/Peru [12]
FictionsManuela de LabordeMexico
Flowers blooming in our throats Eva Giolo Italy [13]
Four Roads Alice Rohrwacher Italy
Hold Me TightMélanie Robert-TourneurBelgium/France
Inner Outer Space Laida Lertxundi Spain [14]
Just Beyond the TreesConnor Murphy [15]
Light CemeteryJonah MillsUS
Light TrapPablo MarínArgentina
Light YearsJonah MillsUS
Mad God Phil Tippett US [16]
Manifestarsi Gianmarco Donaggio Italy [17]
MerapiMalena SzlamChile
Milano di Carta Gianmarco Donaggio Italy [18]
ParenthesisVasilios PapaioannuGreece/Italy/US
Petrov's Flu Kirill Serebrennikov Ivan Dorn, Chulpan Khamatova Russia [19]
PhosphenesAndre de NervauxUK
Polycephaly in DMichael RobinsonTrisha PaytasUS
Quarantine Diana Ringo Anatoly Bely, Aleksandr ObmanovFinland, Russia [20] [21]
R and J Carey Williams David Zayas, María Gabriela de Faría US [22]
Rock Bottom Riser Fern Silva US [23]
School Radio to Major TomChisaka TakuyaJapan
SON CHANTVivian Ostrovsky Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton US
Spencer Pablo Larrain Kirsten Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing US, UK [24]
Terce Nathaniel Dorsky US
Time Flows in Strange Ways on SundaysGiselle LinPeter Yu, Wendy Toh, Iris LiSingapore
Titane Julia Ducournau Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle France [25]
TonalliLos IngrávidosMexico
Train Again Peter Tscherkassky Austria
Transparents, I am.Yuri MuraokaYuri Muraoka, Nonoho Suzuki, Hana SuzukiJapan
Vortex Gaspar Noé Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz France/Belgium/Morocco [26]
Water from The Tremulous StreamJaviera CisternaChile
What is it that you said?Shun IkezoeEric SaitoJapan
When Light is DisplacedZaina BseisoAlaa BseisoPalestine
WorldsIsaac GoesCanada/US
Show me Other Places Rajee Samarasinghe Sri Lanka / USA [27]
2022
Agnès Varda - Pier Paolo Pasolini - New York - 1967 Agnès Varda Agnès Varda, Pier Paolo Pasolini France
THE HOUSE WAS QUIET Ben Rivers UK
Attic Windows of the InfiniteSapphire Rachael GossUnited Kingdom/Italy [28]
Azul no Azul Gianmarco Donaggio Portugal [29]
Buster Keaton Embossed Ken Jacobs US
After Work Ben Rivers, Céline CondorelliUK
Counterfeit Poasts Jon Rafman Canada
Crimes of the Future David Cronenberg Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Stewart US
The Demands of Ordinary DevotionEva GioloItaly/Belgium [30]
Epistolary KissesItamar A.C.
Fairytale Alexander Sokurov Russia
Fata Morgana Tacita Dean US [31]
Festina LenteBaya MedhaffarTunisia/France
HerbariaLeandro ListortiGermany/Argentina
IntervalNathaniel DorskyUS
Lake Forest ParkKersti Jan WerdalUS
Light OneiricMaren Pan, Sy BrandUnited Kingdom
Lights, Like Angels, FlyingJoshua PeinadoRodny AquinoUS
MorvanScott HammenUS [32]
A Moth Orchid Flies at NightMaren Pan, Sy BrandUnited Kingdom
NaosNathaniel DorskyUS
Pigment-Dispersion SyndromeJennifer ReevesUS
Sea Series 23John PriceCanada [33]
Softly, the current may bend our bodiesMaren Pan, Sy BrandUnited Kingdom/Italy
The song nobody knowsRainer KohlbergerAustria
The Sparrow Dream Robert Beavers Ute AurandGermany/USA [34]
Tchaikovsky's Wife Kirill Serebrennikov Alyona Mikhaylova, Odin Biron Russia
The Tomb of KafkaJean-Claude RousseauJean-Claude RousseauFrance [35]
ULTRADREAMGuillaume ValléeCanada
UmbraDaniela Muñoz BarrosoCuba [36]
WelcomeJean-Claude RousseauFrance [37]
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX Ken Jacobs US
Xilma-xilItamar A.C.
W Anna Eriksson Anna Eriksson, Parco LeeFinland
MangosteenTulapop SaenjaroenThailand [38]
Visão do Paraíso Leonardo Pirondi David OReilly, Douglas Goodwin, Jackson Fletcher, Dan DixonBrazil / USA / UK [39]
Strangers Rajee Samarasinghe Sri Lanka / USA [40]
Bold EagleWhammy AlcazarenPhilippines [41]
2023
1984 Diana Ringo Finland, Russia
Lotus-Eyed Girl Rajee Samarasinghe Sri Lanka / United States [42]
CoralSonia OleniakUSA / Poland [43]
DildotectonicaTomás Paula MarquesPortugal [43]
and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)Charlotte PryceUSA [43]
Nocturne for a ForestCatarina VasconcelosPortugal [43]
The Rays of a StormJulio Hernández CordónMexico [43]
Borrowing a Family Album Tamer El Said Egypt [44]
DistortionFrederick C. BorromeoPhilippines [45]
In Visible Light Gianmarco Donaggio Norway/ItalyPerformative Film [46]
In Praise of SlownessHicham GardafKhalid Mousmi, Abdellah Ben Messaoud, Fatima BenabbouUnited Kingdom / Italy [47]
Myanmar AnatomyPrapat JiwarangsanUnited Arab Emirates / ThailandInstallation Film [48]
yours,Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike NeuvilleBelgium [49]
Death Mask John Greyson Kong Kie Njo, Spencer Britten, Jera WolfeCanada [50]
Ijen, London Ben Rivers U
When We Encounter The World Leonardo Pirondi & Zazie Ray-TrapidoPortugal / USA [51]
ShroomsJorge JácomePortugal [52]
Last ThingsDeborah StratmanValérie Massadian, Marcia BjørnerudFrance / USA / Portugal [53]
LaikaDeborah StratmanUSA [54]
The Wool AliensJulia ParksUK
Holographic WillMike StoltzUSA
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, SmokeNishikawa TomonariJapan
Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image)Adam PironKiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Nearest NeighborRebecca Baron, Douglas GoodwinUSA [55] [56]
The Zone of Interest Jonathan Glazer Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller UK [57] [58]
2024
Potenciais à Deriva Leonardo Pirondi Brazil / USA [59]
Pepe Nelson Carlo De Los Santos AriasJhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón GarcíaDominican Republic / Namibia / Germany / France [60]
Direct Action Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell Germany / France [61]
Materia vibrantePablo MarínArgentina
BarruntoEmilia BeatrizShanti Lalita, Harry Josephine Giles, Alicia Matthews, Ángela GinorioUnited Kingdom / Puerto Rico [62]
NanacatepecElena Pardo, Azucena LosanaMexico / SpainPerformative Film [63]
Remote OcclusionsUtkarshIndia / USA [64]
QuebranteJanaina WagnerBrazil [65]
Sarcophagus of Drunken LovesJoana Hadjithomas & Khalil JoreigeFrance / Lebanon [66]
I Would Rather Be a StoneAna HušmanCroatia
O SeekerGavati Wad | with Varun SahniUSA / India [67]
Um tropeço em cinco movimentosValentina RossetBrazil
Eno Gary Hustwit UK / USA [68]
Being (the Digital Griot) Rashaad Newsome USAAI - Film [69]
Detours while speaking of monstersDeniz ŞimşekGermany / Turkey [70]
GrandmamauntsistercatZuza BanasińskaNetherlands / Poland [71]
The Instability of CloudsZazie Ray-TrapidoUSA [72]
Terminal IslandSam DrakeUSA [73]
History Is Written at NightAlejandro Alonso EstrellaTeresita Estrella CareagaCuba / France [74]
Crazy LotusNaween NoppakunSurat Kaewseekram, Phemsinee Sawangkla, Gorrawiya Aphipobthitikorn, Thongchai PimapunsriThailand [75]
Digital Devil SagaCameron WordenUSA [76]
Break no.1 & Break no.2.Lei LeiChina [77]
My Want of You Partakes of Me Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva UK/Netherlands [78]
Single FileSimon LiuItaly/USA/UK/Hong Kong [78]
Invisible PeopleAlisa BergerFrance / Germany [79]
AppearancesNicolás Onischuk Argentina [80]

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