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...

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Drama student Bethany McKabe is starring in a student short film helmed by her friends that’s being shot over Halloween. The premise being what...

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

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

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

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...

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.