Realism Movies

An old woman is carrying shopping bags. A child with a gun is riding a scooter. Birds are flying. A city is falling. A party is lit.

A man gets attacked while trying to take home food for his brother.

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 c...

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 cent...

Enter the relentless stress and pressure of one man's plight to make eggs on toast.

Siblings Aru, age 3, and Kino, age 1, have 3 parents: father Fumino, who is transgender; mother Honoyo, Fumino's partner who gave birth to the childre...

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

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

A final conversation between a recently separated couple on their last night together before parting ways.

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 ther...

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

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

March, 2021. Claudia, a 24-year-old girl, tries to barely survive in the pandemic and precarious Madrid. After being threaten by his landlord in case...

Amin, a construction laborer of a mosque, has to go to his sick wife in his hometown, but the salary of a construction worker is not enough for him to...

An experimental attempt that examines the four corners of the inner zoned quarantine world to question a person.

Although the past two years have been challenging for the Theatre industry, they also showed its incredible strength and resilience. Through interview...

The film was originally conceived as a portrait of Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, the well-known Egyptian doctor, writer, and women’s rights activist. But the...