Magical Realism Movies

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

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

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 mother and daughter rent a house for a getaway after suffering a sudden and tragic loss, little do they know the house is run by a secret cult.

A young woman is forced to deal with her identity crises, when a mysterious old woman squats on her chest.

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

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...

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...

In a world where suicide requires a permit, a man seeking to end his life meets "Soulbound." To regain his permit, he must spend a day with this...

Marina is thirteen and alone. After her grandfather's suicide, she wants to disappear, wishing her imagination could be real.

This piece represents a kind of autobiographical vision. I use myself to create all the figures, sometimes employing masks from the Noh theater to...

Two young siblings are happily at play in their blanket fort, until an ominous shadow with a life of its own threatens their safe haven. As they hunt...

The third film version of the popular Mexican novel, about a wayfarer who travels to a mysterious arid village, to meet the father who long ago...

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

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

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

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