Realism Movies

A depressed wife and mother whose reality is starting to fracture into fantasy, drives her children to the beach. On the return journey she stops at...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a student film together over Halloween, this romance...

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

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the...

A young adult silently drowning in trauma, yearning to let out what’s inside of him, navigates a series of encounters—each revealing...

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

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

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

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...

Art student Ian Jing impresses the realism-loving art teacher Mrs. Hui from the get-go. Following her advice, he draws exactly what he sees,...

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...

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...

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