# 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 |
| 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 | |
| A Metamorfose dos Pássaros | Catarina Vasconcelos | | Portugal | |
| Movie That Invites Pausing | Ken Jacobs | | US | |
| Red Moon Tide | Lois Patiño | | Spain | |
| The Whole Shebang | Ken Jacobs | | US | |
| The Eyes of Summer | Rajee Samarasinghe | Shalani Dilasha, Malka Malshani, Lanka Rajapaksa | Sri Lanka / USA | |
| Purple Sea | Amel Alzakout | | Germany | |
| 2021 ||||||
| 2020 | Friedl vom Grölle | | Austria | |
| An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners | Christian Serritiello | | Italy | |
| Citadel | John Smith | | United Kingdom | |
| Devil's Peak | Simon Lu | | Hong Kong | |
| Double Wow | Ken Jacobs | | US | |
| earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | | Canada/Japan | |
| Ember Days | Nathaniel Dorsky | | US | |
| Emergence Collapse | Rainer Kohlberger | | Austria | |
| Er is een geest van mij / Hay un fantasma mío | Mateo Vega | | Netherlands/Peru | |
| Fictions | Manuela de Laborde | | Mexico | |
| Flowers blooming in our throats | Eva Giolo | | Italy | |
| Hold Me Tight | Mélanie Robert-Tourneur | | Belgium/France | |
| Inner Outer Space | Laida Lertxundi | | Spain | |
| Just Beyond the Trees | Connor Murphy | | | |
| Light Cemetery | Jonah Mills | | US | |
| Light Trap | Pablo Marín | | Argentina | |
| Light Years | Jonah Mills | | US | |
| Mad God | Phil Tippett | | US | |
| Manifestarsi | Gianmarco Donaggio | | Italy | |
| Merapi | Malena Szlam | | Chile | |
| Milano di Carta | Gianmarco Donaggio | | Italy | |
| Parenthesis | Vasilios Papaioannu | | Greece/Italy/US | |
| Petrov's Flu | Kirill Serebrennikov | Ivan Dorn, Chulpan Khamatova | Russia | |
| Phosphenes | Andre de Nervaux | | UK | |
| Polycephaly in D | Michael Robinson | Trisha Paytas | US | |
| Quarantine | Diana Ringo | Anatoly Bely, Aleksandr Obmanov | Finland, Russia | |
| R and J | Carey Williams | David Zayas, María Gabriela de Faría | US | |
| Rock Bottom Riser | Fern Silva | | US | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Azul no Azul | Gianmarco Donaggio | | Portugal | |
| 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 | |
| Epistolary Kisses | Itamar A.C. | | | |
| Fairytale | Alexander Sokurov | | Russia | |
| Fata Morgana | Tacita Dean | | US | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Tchaikovsky's Wife | Kirill Serebrennikov | Alyona Mikhaylova, Odin Biron | Russia | |
| The Tomb of Kafka | Jean-Claude Rousseau | Jean-Claude Rousseau | France | |
| ULTRADREAM | Guillaume Vallée | | Canada | |
| Umbra | Daniela Muñoz Barroso | | Cuba | |
| Welcome | Jean-Claude Rousseau | | France | |
| XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX | Ken Jacobs | | US | |
| Xilma-xil | Itamar A.C. | | | |
| W | Anna Eriksson | Anna Eriksson, Parco Lee | Finland | |
| Mangosteen | Tulapop Saenjaroen | | Thailand | |
| Visão do Paraíso | Leonardo Pirondi | David OReilly, Douglas Goodwin, Jackson Fletcher, Dan Dixon | Brazil / USA / UK | |
| Strangers | Rajee Samarasinghe | | Sri Lanka / USA | |
| Bold Eagle | Whammy Alcazaren | | Philippines | |
| 2023 ||||||
| 1984 | Diana Ringo | | Finland, Russia |
| Lotus-Eyed Girl | Rajee Samarasinghe | | Sri Lanka / United States | |
| Coral | Sonia Oleniak | | USA / Poland | |
| Dildotectonica | Tomás Paula Marques | | Portugal | |
| and so it came about (A Tale of Consequential Dormancy) | Charlotte Pryce | | USA | |
| Nocturne for a Forest | Catarina Vasconcelos | | Portugal | |
| The Rays of a Storm | Julio Hernández Cordón | | Mexico | |
| Borrowing a Family Album | Tamer El Said | | Egypt | |
| Distortion | Frederick C.G. Borromeo | | Philippines | |
| In Visible Light | Gianmarco Donaggio | | Norway/Italy | Performative Film |
| In Praise of Slowness | Hicham Gardaf | Khalid Mousmi, Abdellah Ben Messaoud, Fatima Benabbou | United Kingdom / Italy | |
| Myanmar Anatomy | Prapat Jiwarangsan | | United Arab Emirates / Thailand | Installation Film |
| yours, | Eva Giolo, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Katja Mater, Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Eitan Efrat, Maaike Neuville | | Belgium | |
| Death Mask | John Greyson | Kong Kie Njo, Spencer Britten, Jera Wolfe | Canada | |
| 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 | |
| Shrooms | Jorge Jácome | | Portugal | |
| Last Things | Deborah Stratman | Valérie Massadian, Marcia Bjørnerud | France / USA / Portugal | |
| Laika | Deborah Stratman | | USA | |
| 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 | |
| The Zone of Interest | Jonathan Glazer | Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller | UK | |
| Sermon to the Birds | Hilal Baydarov | Huseyn Nasirov, Rana Asgarova, Orkhan Iskandarli | Azerbaijan | |
| 2024 ||||||
| Potenciais à Deriva | Leonardo Pirondi | | Brazil / USA | |
| Pepe | Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias | Jhon Narváez, Sor María Ríos, Fareed Matjila, Harmony Ahalwa, Jorge Puntillón García | Dominican Republic / Namibia / Germany / France | |
| Direct Action | Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell | | Germany / France | |
| Materia vibrante | Pablo Marín | | Argentina | |
| Barrunto | Emilia Beatriz | Shanti Lalita, Harry Josephine Giles, Alicia Matthews, Ángela Ginorio | United Kingdom / Puerto Rico | |
| Nanacatepec | Elena Pardo, Azucena Losana | | Mexico / Spain | Performative Film |
| Remote Occlusions | Utkarsh | | India / USA | |
| Quebrante | Janaina Wagner | | Brazil | |
| Sarcophagus of Drunken Loves | Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige | | France / Lebanon | |
| I Would Rather Be a Stone | Ana Hušman | | Croatia | |
| O Seeker | Gavati Wad | with Varun Sahni | | USA / India | |
| Um tropeço em cinco movimentos | Valentina Rosset | | Brazil | |
| Eno | Gary Hustwit | | UK / USA | |
| Being (the Digital Griot) | Rashaad Newsome | | USA | AI - Film |
| Detours while speaking of monsters | Deniz Şimşek | | Germany / Turkey | |
| Grandmamauntsistercat | Zuza Banasińska | | Netherlands / Poland | |
| The Instability of Clouds | Zazie Ray-Trapido | | USA | |
| Terminal Island | Sam Drake | | USA | |
| History Is Written at Night | Alejandro Alonso Estrella | Teresita Estrella Careaga | Cuba / France | |
| Crazy Lotus | Naween Noppakun | Surat Kaewseekram, Phemsinee Sawangkla, Gorrawiya Aphipobthitikorn, Thongchai Pimapunsri | Thailand | |
| Digital Devil Saga | Cameron Worden | | USA | |
| Break no.1 & Break no.2. | Lei Lei | | China | |
| My Want of You Partakes of Me | Beny Wagner & Sasha Litvintseva | | UK/Netherlands | |
| Single File | Simon Liu | | Italy/USA/UK/Hong Kong | |
| Invisible People | Alisa Berger | | France / Germany | |
| Appearances | Nicolás Onischuk | | Argentina | |
| 2025 ||||||
| A Patriot of These Woods | Karel Doing | | UK | |
| A Monster with Its Mouth Agape | Steven McInerney | | UK | |
| Dandelion | Steven Subotnick | | USA | |
| . . . . Rumene zore | Davorin Marc | | Slovenia | |
| Extra Life (and Decay) | Stéphanie Lagarde | Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro | France | |