Movies: Docufiction

Dial Diali slightly lifts the veil behind which Senegalese women secretly hide traditional artifices (small loincloths, pearl belts, henna and incense) that highlight their charm and eroticism, to accentuate their power of seduction on men. In Africa...

Two boys follow a signal from the radio, believing it will lead them to aliens from space....

A film based on one of the world's greatest pioneers Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar....

Exploration of memories related to food and food making. Three women are preparing dishes personally meaningful to them, while the director's grandmothers recount the tales of what food and cooking meant for them throughout their lives....

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Dreaming in Black and White is a portrait of Singapore artist Tang Ling Nah. The film takes us on a journey into Ling Nah’s inner world—her memories, dreams and angels, and her fascination with black-and-white media, drawing charcoal and the city’s t...

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A real woman, doing things, being in places. A girl like us, holding a camera, filming her immediate surroundings to show us how it is not easy being a woman, to reveal the elemental plight of being....

In 2020, unable to travel, Ico Costa left a small camera with Ailucha and Domy, two young Mozambicans from the city of Inhambane, and asked them to film their daily lives. The result: working, playing, walking, hanging around, smoking, listening to m...

Tired of my city, I imagine the arrival of a cowboy in Lisbon....

Filmmaker Julia interviews people who photograph sunsets. During filming, a man demands that she deletes the pictures of him. When she refuses, an argument ensues....

The film approaches the work of the Greek artist Nikos Koniaris. The particular way in which the painter depicts human suffering is presented through a film - a hybrid of real recording and directed material. The grief, the sick body, is reflected in...

Conversations between a mother and her son on their way back home from work in the course of a couple of days....

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Can you be accused of being close to ‘ndrangheta families if you have pursued a career in the name of legality? The case of Ambrogio Crespi is much more than a judicial case; it is the answer to these unthinkable questions. It is the paradox that bec...

While struggling to understand his place as a second generation Jordanian–born Palestinian, Abood's uncle returns from Canada with stories of his youth as a refugee following the Naksa. Soon after, and with his uncle's stories fresh in his mind, Abo...

A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever Chinese Opera Singer to have performed Pingju Opera in English in late 1980's China....

Capital is dead labor that, like a vampire, lives only by sucking up living labor; and the longer it lives, the more work it sucks....

Chris Marker, local loan shark who gave him 200 euros and a young filmmaker discuss nature of art and what it's worth....