2020 independent films

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to drift around the United States in her van. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

2020 film directed by Florian Zeller

2020 film directed by Emerald Fennell

2020 film directed by Leigh Whannell

Minari (; ) is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, its plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who move to rural Arkansas during the 1980s.

2020 film by George C. Wolfe

2020 film by Charlie Kaufman

2020 film directed by Max Barbakow

2020 film directed by Francis Lee

Wolfwalkers is a 2020 independent animated fantasy adventure film directed by Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, and is the third instalment in Moore's "Irish Folklore Trilogy", following his previous films The Secret of Kells (2009) and Song of the Sea (2014). An international co-production led by Cartoon Saloon and Mélusine Productions, the film premiered at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival on 12 September. It was released theatrically in Ireland on 2 December 2020 and in France on 16 December 2020.

Cuties () is a 2020 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré in her feature directorial debut. The film's ensemble cast is led by Fathia Youssouf who portrays Amy, a Senegalese-French girl with a traditional Muslim upbringing who is caught between traditional Muslim values and Internet culture when she joins a twerking dance crew.

2020 film directed by Regina King

2020 film directed by Eliza Hittman

2020 film directed by Dave Franco

2020 film by Harry Macqueen

2020 film directed by Sean Durkin

2020 film directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

2020 film directed by Rob Savage

2020 film directed by Michael Almereyda

2020 film by Mona Fastvold

2020 film directed by Brandon Cronenberg

2020 film by Jeff Baena

Kajillionaire is a 2020 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Miranda July. The film stars Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins as members of a petty criminal family whose relationship becomes frayed when a stranger played by Gina Rodriguez joins their schemes.

2020 film directed by Thor Freudenthal

2020 film directed by Alice Wu

2020 film by Mike Elliott

2020 film by Uberto Pasolini

2020 film directed by Josephine Decker

2020 film directed by Phyllida Lloyd

2020 film directed by Julie Taymor

2020 film directed by Natalie Erika James

2020 film directed by Lili Horvát

2020 film directed by Mark Steven Johnson

2020 film directed by John Suits

2020 film directed by Matt Eskandari

2020 film directed by Naomi Kawase

2020 film directed by Emma Seligman

2020 film directed by Kyle Rankin

2020 film by Chris Riedell and Nick Riedell

2020 film directed by Alan Ball

2020 film directed by Euros Lyn

2020 film by Justin Simien

2020 film directed by Gia Coppola

2020 film by Janicza Bravo

2020 film directed by Matt Eskandari

2020 film directed by Shana Feste

2020 film directed by Azazel Jacobs

2020 film directed by Angel Manuel Soto

2020 film directed by Eugene Ashe

2020 film directed by Amy Seimetz

2020 film directed by Rodrigo García

2020 film by Radha Blank

2020 film directed by Eugene Kotlyarenko

2020 film directed by Joshua Caldwell

2020 film by Heidi Ewing

2020 film directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos

2020 animated film by Xavier Giacometti

2020 film directed by Jim Cummings

2020 film directed by Catarina Vasconcelos

2020 film directed by Lawrence Michael Levine