Contemporary Films / Auteur Cinema Archive ©
Auteur Cinema Archive is a curated repository celebrating the unique voices of filmmakers who shape cinema through personal vision and artistic integrity. From timeless classics to contemporary masterworks, we highlight films where the director’s signature is unmistakable—works that transcend convention and reflect a singular point of view. Whether rediscovering icons of the past or exploring bold new auteurs, our archive honors the craft, courage, and creativity that define true auteur cinema.
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Sleeping with the Devil (2017, United States) by Alisa Yang
Based on a recorded Skype exorcism and found footage, the filmmaker confronts her religious trauma in the Evangelical prophetic and deliverance ministry.
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Time Capsule (United States) by Lauren Loesberg
A documentary created from home video footage from 1997-2005, set to the reading of a letter written for a time capsule found twelve years later.
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Tungrus (India) by Rishi Chandna
Tungrus (pronounced: toongroos) is a short documentary that observes a week in the peculiar lives of a middle-class suburban Mumbai household. What was once a home like a million others in the city, turns topsy-turvy when the eccentric patriarch brings home a baby chick for his cats to play with,...
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The Dream Machine (France) by Michael William West
A woman experiments with a Dream Machine, hoping to escape trouble. Within the light and dark of the machine, violent emotions awaken.
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Autumn (Russia) by Daria Elkonina
A train is roaring. A girl wades through the tall grass and a man crosses the river. What happened? Did it happen?
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In Ashes (Norway) by Kjetil Engh Aasen
The life of Inger and her son Jonas is turned upside down when the man they thought they knew is suspected of unspeakable crimes against children. As painful questions arise, Inger realizes her son is slowly pulling away from her. Inger struggles to find a way back to her son, while at the same t...
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Shooting Crows (2018, Switzerland) by Christine Hürzeler
A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. Now and then a crow is shot: as a deterrent. The crows rally after every shot. A woman disappears. The police gather evidence. What is really going on? Are reality and imagination slowly blurring?
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Trap (2019, Turkey) Seyid Çolak
Five fishermen live on an island. Their ordinary life start to change with the unknown disappearance of one of them. Also a wolf comes to the island. The Wolf tries to open his own living space. These happenings cause a growing tension between friends.
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Kev (2018, Belgium) by Clémence Hébert
Kevin is a child who runs away, breaks things, cannot speak, has a partly cut-off ear. The type of autism he suffers from is said to be so severe that most institutions refuse to care for him. The filmmaker has been visiting him regularly with her video camera since he was 14 years old; now he is...
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Pacific (2019, Lebanon) Angie Obeid
Whenever I walk through the dark reddish hallways to reach my apartment, whenever I would look out of my windows and dive into that expended view of the city of Brussels, unusual feelings would emerge... until the day I read an article about my building PACIFIC, entitled "the suicide tower".
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The Path of a Memory (Belgium) by Katerina Indesteege
Growling mountains, trees full of fruits, giggles, whispers and tears. The past is still present in the mind of the daydreamer. Documentary meets fiction when the filmmaker fantasizes about her mother's memories. How could her life have looked like in a country far from here, in times of a dictat...
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Game (2019/Iran) by Ali Haddadi
A father with financial problems is forced to pay compensation for the damage caused by his son. He tries to get out of this situation by keeping his dignity.
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Breaker (2017/Japan) by Philippe McKie
In tomorrow's Tokyo, the technologically-enhanced body of a young mercenary hacker is overrun by a sentient data weapon. Wanted, the parasitic A.I becomes her only ally as she is chased across the city by those seeking to salvage it.