Realism Movies

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

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

Spaces and Reservations is an intimate and unsparingly realistic relationship drama that tells the story of a young couple being torn apart by...

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...

Since the pandemic hit in the spring of 2020, Metro Manila has been subjected to intermittent lockdowns with demeaning punishments. Despite the...

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...

Siblings Aru, age 3, and Kino, age 1, have 3 parents: father Fumino, who is transgender; mother Honoyo, Fumino's partner who gave birth to the...

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

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

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...

Amin, a construction laborer of a mosque, has to go to his sick wife in his hometown, but the salary of a construction worker is not enough for him...

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...

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...

A man gets attacked in broad daylight after getting some lunch for his younger brother.

A final conversation between a recently separated couple on their last night together before parting ways.

An experimental attempt that examines the four corners of the inner zoned quarantine world to question a person.

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

Part work of ethereal realism, part dance film, this contemporary-set short follows a young man facing the probability of an HIV+ diagnosis.