Docufiction Movies

Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments with actors), the film begins on September 8, 1961...

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

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

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

Autumn 1977: the Bernese officer trainee Flükiger is found dead. Who is to blame for his death? The RAF or the Béliers, was it an...

Anatomy of a Lost Sound traces the life of an incendiary sound, the space it conjured: a paramilitary youth camp, one of many metastasizing across...

Brian Blessed plays George Mallory in this intrepid recreation of his ill fated 1924 climb to Everest. Meeting Sir Chris Bonington, Rheinhold...

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...

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

Tinskani mourns the death of his friend and mentor, Salvador. His partner, Citlali, urges him to attend the funeral with her, but Tinskani is haunted...

In this short docu-fiction film, strong and hardy Inuit hunters demonstrate and test their strength in boxing, tug-of-war, and other strenuous...

Exploration of memories related to food and food making. Three women are preparing dishes personally meaningful to them, while the director's...

Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial...

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

A docufiction shortfilm about stimuli and death.

An Editor recounts the diaries of a failed film production as they attempt to construct a new narrative from the remaining footage.

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...

Natural History of an Alien, also known as Anatomy of an Alien in the US, is an early Discovery Channel pseudo-documentary. This pseudo-documentary...

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through...