Docufiction Movies

Game of Replacing of Gods explores the death care industry in Taiwan, specifically the culture of “Zizha”—a craft mainly used as...

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations...

A Lebanese immigrant returns to Beirut for the first time in a decade, only to find love and horror by the sea, in the alleyways, and on the elusive...

M'hamed Issiakhem (Kabyle: Mḥemmed Isyaxem; Arabic: محمد إسياخم)—born on June...

a filmmaker setting out to capture the life of demolition worker, an immigrant whose close friends and fellow workers went missing. As the filmmaker...

While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of...

Four friends tired of protests are thinking about another way to shake up capitalist society. Driven by fiction, they decide to blow up a Brussels...

Presented as a kind of docu-fiction, the film shows training maneuvers by the young mountaineers of the Scuola Centrale Militare di Alpinismo...

Between bars and shows, Dodô Pankada divides his time between his work as a barber and the stages of São Paulo's independent music...

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's...

A real woman, doing things, being in places. A girl like us, holding a camera, filming her immediate surroundings to show us how it is not easy being...

The film's author runs auditions for a new film set after Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Three female actors come to try for Juliet. What if Romeo...

A young man logs back into VRChat after some time away and reflects on his loneliness through Quentin Meillassoux’s philosophical theory of...

While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject.

Aya grows up with her mother on the island of Lahou. Joyful and carefree, she likes to pick coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, her paradise is...

Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is...

A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of...

A day in the life of Annie, Boo and Carmen, three Chinese/Taiwanese girls living in Paris during the Covid -19 pandemic, presented in a triptych...

A sublime documentary on childhood and bereavement that’s one of several shorts the filmmaker completed while working in Algeria for Georges...

Two boys follow a signal from the radio, believing it will lead them to aliens from space.