Movies: Docufiction

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....

A young Calabrian woman just back from Gorizia tells a friend about her trip: what prompted her to go to Friuli-Venezia Giulia was her discovery of the poems and novels by one Carlo Michelstaedter, an author and philosopher who had died young, in 191...

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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....

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

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A day in the life of Annie, Boo and Carmen, three Chinese/Taiwanese girls living in Paris during the Covid -19 pandemic, presented in a triptych split screen....

Anatomy of a Lost Sound traces the life of an incendiary sound, the space it conjured—a paramilitary youth camp, one of many metastasizing across Central and Eastern Europe, and the enigmatic figure most indelibly marked by it, Zulfikar Veritić. This...

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