Magical Realism Movies

Set just days before Christmas, Big Worm is a story about a newly located Nigerian/Canadian family in Australia. The film is narrated by high school...

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

A retired mother becomes increasingly devoted to “The Jakrak Society", a cult that believes in healing through palm energy, as her illness...

An agoraphobic man traps himself in an astronaut costume to avoid the disastrous consequences of his condition

An introverted AI coder struggling to keep her grandfather's theater and her mother's legacy from being destroyed, decides to use her skills to blur...

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

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of...

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

A queer stop-motion animation live-action hybrid film following four women in a surrealist parallel narrative unconstricted to heteronormative space...

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...

To experience snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese woman Trúc Lâm moves to a little town in the Erz Mountains. During a guided...

A story about the strange appearance of an unusual person in the rural courtyard of ordinary people. One evening, Pelayo, the owner of the yard met a...

A disheveled, humanoid Moth, drawn into a 24/7 optometrist office by the allure of its neon-light sign, regales the attending physician about his...

A person falls in love with a printer.

As a young woman walks home alone one night, a chance encounter with a missing dog incites the reclamation of her body and self — as she learns...

To fight plant and animal cruelty, a vegan joins a cult and must harness photosynthesis before starving to death.

The myths of Orpheus and Charon are interwoven with the entirely sung story of four friends dining in an Italian bistro who are fated to perish the...

A conversation between two old friends who meet in a dream.

Set against the gritty, vibrant backdrop of Berlin, BERLIN LOOP tells the story of Fatma’s rapid entanglement with the city’s...