Movies: Docufiction

A metacinematic reflection on the nature of representation and the ongoing drug war in Mexico, Nicolás Pereda’s Flora revisits locations and scenes from the mainstream 2010 narco-comedy El Infierno, exploring the paradoxes of depicting narco-traffick...

Two documentary filmmakers become the plaything of writer Peter Stamm and subject of the novel whose creation they actually wanted to document....

A cinematic impression of Vietnam, told through the eyes of Vietnamese immigrants....

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 split screen....

Chris Marker, local loan shark who gave him 200 euros and a young filmmaker discuss nature of art and what it's worth....

Conversations between a mother and her son on their way back home from work in the course of a couple of days....

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While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of his youth as a refugee following the Naksa. Soon after, and with his uncle's stories fresh in his mind, Abo...

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film - a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in...

Gravedigger is the last name on the list of fighters facing the Corona epidemic. The gravediggers have buried the dead in one corona after another at the call of humanity even though they were not paid. In return, they received some rewards and an in...

Dreaming in Black and White is a portrait of Singapore artist Tang Ling Nah. The film takes us on a journey into Ling Nah’s inner world—her memories, dreams and angels, and her fascination with black-and-white media, drawing charcoal and the city’s t...

Filmmaker Julia interviews people who photograph sunsets. During filming, a man demands that she deletes the pictures of him. When she refuses, an argument ensues....

"A country without artists is a dead country... I hope we are alive..." It is in this film by Fawzi Sahraoui produced by the RTA in 1985 and filmed a few months before the painter M'hamed Issiakhem 'turns off this sentence is spoken. A very interesti...

Capital is dead labor that, like a vampire, lives only by sucking up living labor; and the longer it lives, the more work it sucks....

25 years ago, three persons made up their minds to record the movement of the sun. Today, Kuba continues the tradition of their solarographic experiments....

12 years later, a failed school short film is resignified to share the multiple experiences that exist in the creation of a film....

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