Magical Realism Movies

Fatma becomes entangled with Berlin’s bike-theft mafia. Her meteoric rise to becoming the gang’s chief lock-picker brings initial success...

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

An aging hermit, Eloy, lives in seclusion in the Colombian mountains, haunted by his grandfather’s ghost and bound to the land. When park...

The villagers, who think that Hasan is dead, believe that he has mystical powers when he opens his eyes. The subsequent course of events begins to...

A factory worker martyred on July 15 wants to return to Earth to feel that unique spiritual bliss again. He fights relentlessly to be the target of a...

In the wake of her parents' divorce, 13 year old Nova is confronted by an identical but seemingly older version of herself called The Other, forcing...

On his daily dog walk in the Peaks, Cary stumbles upon something otherworldly: a giant monolith, standing where he'd swear there was nothing before....

The conventions of documentary, musical theater, and magical realism are combined and subverted to address issues of personal, national, and artistic...

Hazel Monroe, a trans pageant queen finds herself back in the spotlight to reclaim the space she once fled. But as the pressure mounts, her surreal...

Ana is a college student with a dark secret: her boyfriend is a zombie. After his tragic death 3 months prior, she used ancient magic to reanimate...

A young girl repairs a treasured wooden hummingbird, her late mother's last gift, bringing hope and healing to her grieving father.

At an abandoned gas station, the paths of Rue, Halley and Rayleigh cross and unravel through layers of time, where their memories and the impact of...

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

A group of literary charcaters refuse to be forgotten and decide to take matters into their own hands. A whimsical look at literature and the power...

Luca Venditto, a down-on-his-luck filmmaker drowning in student debt from film school, scrapes by working in a restaurant to make ends meet. One...

An animated horror short about a Nigerian-American teenager returning to Nigeria after the death of her grandfather.

A British Latino bartender is starting his shift when he receives an unsettling visitor.

A nostalgia-prone man finds himself transported to a world where seventh grade lasts forever.

A young woman is forced to deal with her identity crises, when a mysterious old woman squats on her chest.