Magical Realism Movies

When Martin is fired and subsequently forced to move in with his sister following a Misophonia outburst at work, he sets out on a comically...

An isolated young black man leaves reality behind to become a giant Octopus.

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

A desperate immigrant delivery driver stumbles into a mahjong parlor run by three demons, where he enters a demon’s deal: win the game, and...

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

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

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

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....

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...

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.

A woman struggles to keep her fading family restaurant alive, stuck upholding its legacy alone. When Meng Po — the old goddess who serves soup...

A person falls in love with a printer.

Marija returns to Latvia hoping to regain not only a sense of home, but also her close relationship with her friend, Sofija. Longing for the freedom...

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

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

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 paper-puppet stop-motion documentary about Two-Spirit people's gender experiences, contrasted with a white transgender experience, with...

Nwa, a British-Nigerian woman, is in torment for not being able to have children. However, a transformative baptism leads her on an unusual journey...