List of avant-garde films of the 2000s

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A list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 2000s.

Title	Director	Cast	Country	Subgenre/Notes
2000
The Heart of the World	Guy Maddin	Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar		[1]
Kimono	Hal Hartley	Miho Nikaido		[2]
Little Otik	Jan Švankmajer	Jan Hartl, Veronika Zilkova		Surrealist film[3]
Mysterious Object at Noon	Apichatpong Weerasethakul			[4]
2001
Mulholland Dr.	David Lynch	Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring		[5]
Southlander	Steven Hanft	Rory Cochrane, Rossie Harris, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs		[6]
Waking Life	Richard Linklater	Wiley Wiggins, Lorelei Linklater, Trevor Jack Brooks		[7]
2002
11'09"01 September 11	Various			[8]
Blissfully Yours	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter		[9]
Claire	Milford Thomas	Toniet Gallego, Mish P. DeLight, James Ferguson		[10]
The Cloud of Unknowing	Richard Sylvarnes	Miho Nikaido, D.J. Mendel, Lisa Walter		[11]
*Corpus Callosum	Michael Snow	Kim Plate, Greg Hermanovic, John Massey		[12]
Decasia	Bill Morrison			[13]
Gerry	Gus Van Sant	Casey Affleck, Matt Damon		[14]
The Loser Takes It All	Nikos Nikolaidis	Giannis Aggelakas, Simeon Nikolaidis, Jenny Kitseli
Naqoyqatsi	Godfrey Reggio			[15]
Russian Ark	Alexander Sokurov	Sergei Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy		[16]
Ten	Abbas Kiarostami	Mania Akbari, Amin Maher		[17]
The Tracker	Rolf de Heer	David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau		[18]
The Decay of Fiction	Pat O'Neill	Various		[19]
2003
Bodysong	Simon Pummell			[20]
Cowards Bend the Knee	Guy Maddin	Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart		[21]
Dogville	Lars von Trier	Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany		[22]
The Five Obstructions	Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth	Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth, Claus Nissen
The Missing	Lee Kang-Sheng	Lu Yi-ching, Chang Chea, Miao Tien		[23]
The Saddest Music in the World	Guy Maddin	Mark McKinney, Isabella Rossellini, Maria de Medeiros		[24]
Tarnation	Jonathan Caouette			[25]
Woodenhead	Florian Habicht	Nicholas Butler, Theresa Peters, Tony Bishop		[26]
2004
Anatomy of Hell	Catherine Breillat	Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat		[27]
Innocence	Lucile Hadžihalilović	Zoe Auclair, Berangere Haubruge, Lea Bridarolli		[28]
Notre Musique	Jean-Luc Godard	Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu		[29]
Palindromes	Todd Solondz	Ellen Barkin, Stephen Adly-Guirgis, Jennifer Jason Leigh		[30]
Planet Earth: Dreams	D.J. Mendel	Tim Donovan Jr., Denise Greber		[31]
Proteus	David Lebrun	Marian Seldes, Corey Burton, Richard Dysart		[32]
The Raspberry Reich	Bruce LaBruce	Susanne Sachsse, Daniel Batscher		[33]
Tropical Malady	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee		[34]
2005
Drawing Restraint 9	Matthew Barney	Matthew Barney, Björk		[35]
Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine	Peter Tscherkassky			[36]
Johanna	Kornél Mundruczó	Orsolya Toth, Zsolt Trill, Eszter Wierdl		[37]
Last Days	Gus Van Sant	Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento		[38]
Lunacy	Jan Švankmajer	Pavel Liska, Jan Triska, Anna Geislerová		[39]
Manderlay	Lars von Trier	Bryce Dallas Howard, Isaach de Bankolé, Danny Glover		[40]
Rubber Johnny	Chris Cunningham			[41]
The Wayward Cloud	Tsai Ming-Liang	Lee Kang-Sheng, Chen Shiang-Chyi, Lu Yi-ching		[42]
What is it?	Crispin Glover	Michael Blevins, Rikky Wittman, John Insinna		[43]
The Wild Blue Yonder	Werner Herzog	Brad Dourif		[44]
The Zero Years	Nikos Nikolaidis	Vicky Harris, Jenny Kitselli, Arhontisa Mavrakaki		[45]
2006
Brand Upon the Brain!	Guy Maddin	Erik Steffen Maahs, Gretchen Lee Krich, Sullivan Brown		[46]
Container	Lukas Moodysson	Peter Lorentzon, Mariha Aberg, Jena Malone		[47]
Daft Punk's Electroma	Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo	Peter Hurteau, Michael Reich		[48]
Glass Lips	Lech Majewski	Patryk Czajka, Joanna Litwin, Grzegorz Przybyl		[49]
Inland Empire	David Lynch	Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton		[50]
2007
It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine	Crispin Glover	Steven C. Stewart, Margit Carstensen, Carrie Szlasa		[51]
Japan Japan	Lior Shamriz	Imri Kahn		[52]
Manuelle Labor	Marie Losier	Marie Losier		[53]
Mister Lonely	Harmony Korine	Diego Luna, Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant		[54]
My Winnipeg	Guy Maddin	Ann Savage		[55]
2008
Synecdoche, New York	Charlie Kaufman	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton		[56]
Waltz With Bashir	Ari Folman			[57]
2009
Antichrist	Lars von Trier	Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Defoe, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm		[58]
Enter the Void	Gaspar Noé	Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown		[59]
Trash Humpers	Harmony Korine	Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson		[60]
Wild Grass	Alain Resnais	Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier, Anne Consigny		[61]
2010
Film Socialisme	Jean-Luc Godard	Catherine Tanvier, Christian Sinniger, Jean-Marc Stehle		[62]
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee		[63]

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