Realism Movies

Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.

The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide whose followers still visit his tomb on his...

Hard-partying young woman Effi lives in rural Wales, whose life largely revolves around drinking vodka with her friends and eating instant noodles to...

The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He...

In a summer’s sweltering heat, 20-something Fei begins to suspect her boyfriend is cheating. As doubt takes root for Fei, she searches for...

Hamaguchi wrote and directed this film as a graduation project for the students at ENBU Seminar (film and theater school in Tokyo) when he taught...

Bringing the Kuleshov effect into the streets of Culiat.

A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth...

Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking...

'Le cas Perrot' depicts a dreamlike world in a realist manner. It was shot with amateur teenagers in the style of a documentary in order to make...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

Ángela has until 9.00 pm to get hold of the money she needs. In desperation, she scours the city in search of a solution, facing a reality...

Selfhood follows 5 individuals and the difference between their sense of self compared to how they present theirselves to the outside world.

Charts the trials and tribulations of Ana, a free-spirited 26 year-old returning home to Strasbourg for the summer after living abroad for long...

After her release from involuntary hospitalization, “Annie” grapples with the trauma of her confinement, all while working as a...

When an underachieving writer spontaneously hosts his former best friend on a layover, he is forced to grapple with their complicated past and...

Struggling to survive on the margins of society, two outcasts manage to build a beautiful friendship as they face loss and hardship.

This tale of familial warfare and sacrifice takes place in hard-pressed Shanghai at the end of the 1940s. Hu Zhiqing can barely support his wife and...