List of avant-garde films of the 2020s

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

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Notes	Ref.
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 Tide	Lois Patiño		Spain		[4]
The Whole Shebang	Ken Jacobs		US		[5]
The Eyes of Summer	Rajee Samarasinghe	Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Lanka Rajapaksa	Sri Lanka / USA		[6]
Purple Sea	Amel Alzakout		Germany		[7]
2021
2020	Friedl vom Grölle		Austria		[8]
An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners	Christian Serritiello		Italy
Citadel	John Smith		United Kingdom		[9]
Devil's Peak	Simon Lu		Hong Kong
Double Wow	Ken Jacobs		US		[10]
earthearthearth	Daïchi Saïto		Canada/Japan		[11]
Ember Days	Nathaniel Dorsky		US		[12]
Emergence Collapse	Rainer Kohlberger		Austria
Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío	Mateo Vega		Netherlands/Peru		[13]
Fictions	Manuela de Laborde		Mexico
Flowers blooming in our throats	Eva Giolo		Italy		[14]
Hold Me Tight	Mélanie Robert-Tourneur		Belgium/France
Inner Outer Space	Laida Lertxundi		Spain		[15]
Just Beyond the Trees	Connor Murphy				[16]
Light Cemetery	Jonah Mills		US
Light Trap	Pablo Marín		Argentina
Light Years	Jonah Mills		US
Mad God	Phil Tippett		US		[17]
Manifestarsi	Gianmarco Donaggio		Italy		[18]
Merapi	Malena Szlam		Chile
Milano di Carta	Gianmarco Donaggio		Italy		[19]
Parenthesis	Vasilios Papaioannu		Greece/Italy/US
Petrov's Flu	Kirill Serebrennikov	Ivan Dorn, Chulpan Khamatova	Russia		[20]
Phosphenes	Andre de Nervaux		UK
Polycephaly in D	Michael Robinson	Trisha Paytas	US
Quarantine	Diana Ringo	Anatoly Bely, Aleksandr Obmanov	Finland, Russia		[21] [22]
R and J	Carey Williams	David Zayas, María Gabriela de Faría	US		[23]
Rock Bottom Riser	Fern Silva		US		[24]
School Radio to Major Tom	Chisaka Takuya		Japan
SON CHANT	Vivian Ostrovsky	Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton	US
Spencer	Pablo Larrain	Kirsten Stewart, Timothy Spall, Jack Farthing	US, UK		[25]
Terce	Nathaniel Dorsky		US
That Was When I Thought I Could Hear You	Matt Whitman		US
Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays	Giselle Lin	Peter Yu, Wendy Toh, Iris Li	Singapore
Titane	Julia Ducournau	Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle	France		[26]
Tonalli	Los Ingrávidos		Mexico
Train Again	Peter Tscherkassky		Austria
Transparents, I am.	Yuri Muraoka	Yuri Muraoka, Nonoho Suzuki, Hana Suzuki	Japan
Vortex	Gaspar Noé	Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, Alex Lutz	France/Belgium/Morocco		[27]
Water from The Tremulous Stream	Javiera Cisterna		Chile
What is it that you said?	Shun Ikezoe	Eric Saito	Japan
When Light is Displaced	Zaina Bseiso	Alaa Bseiso	Palestine
Worlds	Isaac Goes		Canada/US
Show me Other Places	Rajee Samarasinghe		Sri Lanka / USA		[28]
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 Infinite	Sapphire Rachael Goss		United Kingdom/Italy		[29]
Azul no Azul	Gianmarco Donaggio		Portugal		[30]
Buster Keaton Embossed	Ken Jacobs		US
After Work	Ben Rivers, Céline Condorelli		UK
Counterfeit Poasts	Jon Rafman		Canada
Crimes of the Future	David Cronenberg	Viggo Mortensen, Kirsten Stewart	US
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion	Eva Giolo		Italy/Belgium		[31]
Epistolary Kisses	Itamar A.C.
Fairytale	Alexander Sokurov		Russia
Fata Morgana	Tacita Dean		US		[32]
Festina Lente	Baya Medhaffar		Tunisia/France
Herbaria	Leandro Listorti		Germany/Argentina
Interval	Nathaniel Dorsky		US
Lake Forest Park	Kersti Jan Werdal		US
Light Oneiric	Maren Pan, Sy Brand		United Kingdom
Lights, Like Angels, Flying	Joshua Peinado	Rodny Aquino	US
Morvan	Scott Hammen		US		[33]
A Moth Orchid Flies at Night	Maren Pan, Sy Brand		United Kingdom
Naos	Nathaniel Dorsky		US
Pigment-Dispersion Syndrome	Jennifer Reeves		US
Sea Series 23	John Price		Canada		[34]
Softly, the current may bend our bodies	Maren Pan, Sy Brand		United Kingdom/Italy
The song nobody knows	Rainer Kohlberger		Austria
The Sparrow Dream	Robert Beavers	Ute Aurand	Germany/USA		[35]
Tchaikovsky's Wife	Kirill Serebrennikov	Alyona Mikhaylova, Odin Biron	Russia
The Tomb of Kafka	Jean-Claude Rousseau	Jean-Claude Rousseau	France		[36]
ULTRADREAM	Guillaume Vallée		Canada
Umbra	Daniela Muñoz Barroso		Cuba		[37]
Welcome	Jean-Claude Rousseau		France		[38]
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX	Ken Jacobs		US
Xilma-xil	Itamar A.C.
W	Anna Eriksson	Anna Eriksson, Parco Lee	Finland
Mangosteen	Tulapop Saenjaroen		Thailand		[39]
Visão do Paraíso	Leonardo Pirondi	David OReilly, Douglas Goodwin, Jackson Fletcher, Dan Dixon	Brazil / USA / UK		[40]
Strangers	Rajee Samarasinghe		Sri Lanka / USA		[41]
Bold Eagle	Whammy Alcazaren		Philippines		[42]
2023
1984	Diana Ringo		Finland, Russia
Lotus-Eyed Girl	Rajee Samarasinghe		Sri Lanka / United States		[43]
Coral	Sonia Oleniak		USA / Poland		[44]
Dildotectonica	Tomás Paula Marques		Portugal		[44]
and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy)	Charlotte Pryce		USA		[44]
Nocturne for a Forest	Catarina Vasconcelos		Portugal		[44]
The Rays of a Storm	Julio Hernández Cordón		Mexico		[44]
Borrowing a Family Album	Tamer El Said		Egypt		[45]
Distortion	Frederick C.G. Borromeo		Philippines		[46]
In Visible Light	Gianmarco Donaggio		Norway/Italy	Performative Film	[47]
In Praise of Slowness	Hicham Gardaf	Khalid Mousmi, Abdellah Ben Messaoud, Fatima Benabbou	United Kingdom / Italy		[48]
Myanmar Anatomy	Prapat Jiwarangsan		United Arab Emirates / Thailand	Installation Film	[49]
yours,	Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville		Belgium		[50]
Death Mask	John Greyson	Kong Kie Njo, Spencer Britten, Jera Wolfe	Canada		[51]
Giant's Kettle	Markku Hakala, Mari Käki		Finland
Ijen, London	Ben Rivers		UK
When We Encounter The World	Leonardo Pirondi & Zazie Ray-Trapido		Portugal / USA		[52]
Shrooms	Jorge Jácome		Portugal		[53]
Last Things	Deborah Stratman	Valérie Massadian, Marcia Bjørnerud	France / USA / Portugal		[54]
Laika	Deborah Stratman		USA		[55]
The Wool Aliens	Julia Parks		UK
Holographic Will	Mike Stoltz		USA
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke	Nishikawa Tomonari		Japan
Dau:añcut (Moving Along Image)	Adam Piron		Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Nearest Neighbor	Rebecca Baron, Douglas Goodwin		USA		[56] [57]
The Zone of Interest	Jonathan Glazer	Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller	UK		[58] [59]
Sermon to the Birds	Hilal Baydarov	Huseyn Nasirov, Rana Asgarova, Orkhan Iskandarli	Azerbaijan		[60]
2024
Potenciais à Deriva	Leonardo Pirondi		Brazil / USA		[61]
Pepe	Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias	Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García	Dominican Republic / Namibia / Germany / France		[62]
Direct Action	Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell		Germany / France		[63]
Materia vibrante	Pablo Marín		Argentina
Barrunto	Emilia Beatriz	Shanti Lalita, Harry Josephine Giles, Alicia Matthews, Ángela Ginorio	United Kingdom / Puerto Rico		[64]
Nanacatepec	Elena Pardo, Azucena Losana		Mexico / Spain	Performative Film	[65]
Remote Occlusions	Utkarsh		India / USA		[66]
Quebrante	Janaina Wagner		Brazil		[67]
Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves	Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige		France / Lebanon		[68]
I Would Rather Be a Stone	Ana Hušman		Croatia
O Seeker	Gavati Wad | with Varun Sahni		USA / India		[69]
Um tropeço em cinco movimentos	Valentina Rosset		Brazil
Eno	Gary Hustwit		UK / USA		[70]
Being (the Digital Griot)	Rashaad Newsome		USA	AI - Film	[71]
Detours while speaking of monsters	Deniz Şimşek		Germany / Turkey		[72]
Grandmamauntsistercat	Zuza Banasińska		Netherlands / Poland		[73]
The Instability of Clouds	Zazie Ray-Trapido		USA		[74]
Terminal Island	Sam Drake		USA		[75]
History Is Written at Night	Alejandro Alonso Estrella	Teresita Estrella Careaga	Cuba / France		[76]
Crazy Lotus	Naween Noppakun	Surat Kaewseekram, Phemsinee Sawangkla, Gorrawiya Aphipobthitikorn, Thongchai Pimapunsri	Thailand		[77]
Digital Devil Saga	Cameron Worden		USA		[78]
Break no.1 & Break no.2.	Lei Lei		China		[79]
My Want of You Partakes of Me	Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva		UK/Netherlands		[80]
Single File	Simon Liu		Italy/USA/UK/Hong Kong		[80]
Invisible People	Alisa Berger		France / Germany		[81]
Appearances	Nicolás Onischuk		Argentina		[82]
2025
A Patriot of These Woods	Karel Doing		UK		[83]
A Monster with Its Mouth Agape	Steven McInerney		UK		[84]
Dandelion	Steven Subotnick		USA		[85]
. . . . Rumene zore	Davorin Marc		Slovenia		[86]
Extra Life (and Decay)	Stéphanie Lagarde	Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro	France		[87]

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