Movies: Magical realism

A girl with vitiligo finds an unlikely friend in the school's talking goldfish, and orchestrates a jailbreak....

Set in a distant barrio, a strange skin disease throws a tight-knit village into turmoil. At the heart of their struggle stands an ancient tree believed to be miraculous. Locals flock to it, leaving clothes as tokens of faith and exchanging names wit...

Ian is an aspiring autistic photographer who struggles with a painful memory and unemployment, following the loss of his support worker Janet....

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 next morning in the attack on the Twin Towers. At meal’s end, through magical realism, the restaurant’...

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

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 choices on each other link the past and the present inextricably together....

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A film enthusiast, Ajish (28) desperate to get into a film school (FTII) fails again in the interview round. At this damp night of sorrow, his emotional outburst turn into magical prints onto the bedsheet; through his tears he forms a pattern. Afterw...

Amid Guanajuato's vibrant streets, an aging filmmaker becomes a modern Don Quixote, joined by a spirited young animator as his loyal Sanchia. Together, they navigate themes of mortality, unfulfilled dreams, and the fragile line between madness and cl...

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 the line between fiction and reality — and in the process, opens a door into the magic that is cinema...

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 very old man with white wings in his yard. He had a poor, squalid, dirty look. Pelayo and his wife, ...

A middle-aged man on the brink of divorce gets stalked by a blue chair that refuses to go away....

Mother and Daughter struggle to deal with their memories during the absence of Father who leaves home inexplicably during the beginning of monsoon....

'Hold Me, Softly' follows the blossoming friendship between a reclusive video-game designer and her charming new neighbor. As they talk through the most profound tears and laughter along the curbside, their heartwarming story captures the essence of ...

A hooded figure enters an abandoned house in the woods, where flickering lights reveal to him the memories of the family who once resided there....