A collection of cinema that pushes traditional narrative structures and chooses to expand our understanding of storytelling. Allow yourself to let go of ways you interpret film while watching any of these films that either experiment, combine documentary and fiction, contort plots and characters, or create a hybrid of sorts, to enjoy cinema in a different way.
“Diciembres” blends together archive footage and fictional scenes – using a poetic style that viscerally recreates moments from the invasion." - Variety
Diciembres centres on the US invasion of Panama in 1989 and a reconciliation among survivors a decade later in December 1999 when a photographe...
"Drljaca's camera travels each scene with slow insistence on its remarkable beauty." Globe and Mail
Toronto International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal
Igor Drjaca's documentary is a complex and insightful examination of the modern-day tour...
Sundance Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
A young Wayúu woman named Doris has a dream that she reunites with her deceased cousin. When she tells her grandmother about the dream they decide that her vision is the inception of an ancient ritual. Do...
" ...an inspiring tale about one particular farmer who is struggling to overcome a traumatic event." Cineuropa
Berlin Film Festival
Indie Lisboa International Film Festival
Jeonju International Film Festival
Helvécio Marins Jr.'s film centres on Marcelo (Marcelo di Souza), an easygoing cowboy a...
"...in equal parts magical, haunting, mysterious and tangible." Cineuropa
Berlin Film Festival
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Camerimage
Twelve-year-old Alba longs to discover the mysterious, unknown reality of death in director Diana Toucedo's debut feature, an intensely atmospheri...
"This black-and-white study of human endurance, communication and compassion manages to be both austere and moving." Hollywood Reporter
San Sebastian International Film Festival
Torino Film Festival
Living in Barcelona, Stella is an Argentinian without any papers and suffers from ALS. As her li...
'a flower of a film amid the ruins of Caracas' The Guardian
Venice Film Festival
Miami International Film Festival Winner
A vivid and intimate account of the Venezuelan crisis told through the real-life struggle of a young father trying to save his family from the demolition of their home.
Ve...
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
There are many aspects that have defined our turn towards modernity and our plunge into the post-modern era. There are the ways in which we communicate, there are the ways in which we travel, the ways in which we work an...
Cannes Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Moscow Film Festival
Dark clouds hang over the island of Fogo. An evacuation order has been issued as a result of an increasing decay of the local community. People leave, often reluctantly, but they submit to their fate. And so do tw...
Incuna International Film Festival
porto/post/doc
A Tarkovskian Stalker-like atmosphere surrounds Fernando José Pereira’s O laboratório. The ruins we traverse, they are a landscape of memories. Memories of the past, above all. But they also foreshadow a future, a future of ‘life after life’, a f...
CPH:DOX
IDFA
A huge, over-towering hangar is opened. The static camera is positioned at a distance, so that the full grandeur of the hangar and simultaneously that of the Bolivian airline Lloyd Aereo Boliviano is shown. Danish director Sebastian Cordes’s A Place Called Lloyd is a record of loyal...
Indielisbao
Sarajevo Film Festival
First, a black screen with a woman’s whisper in the background. Then, a naked man with a horse-shaped head walking towards the camera. Aleksandra Niemczyk’s film Centaur begins obscure, almost otherworldly. Vlado, a man in his late forties, early fifties, strug...
Camerimage
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Montreal World Film Festival
One defining characteristic of our post-modern life is the drastic change of our ways of communication. In the last fifteen to twenty years, emails and text messages have cast aside letters as a preferred way of communicat...
Cinéma du Réel
CPX:DOX
Returning home, experiencing time, exploring traces from the past. Miguel Hilari, from Bolivia, uses his camera to look into the past, and created with El corral y el viento a film that seems like a portrait of another time. Hilari returned to the Aymara village of his fat...
Sundance Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
This short film, crafted entirely out of archival footage from the National Film Board of Canada by First Nations filmmaker Caroline Monnet, takes us on an exhilarating journey from the Far North to the urban south, capturing the perpetu...
Toronto International Film Festival
Edinburgh Internatonal Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
Wayne Wapeemukwa's powerful portrait of five Vancouverites during the 2010 Winter Olympics utilizes doc/fiction hybrid techniques to give voice to those living on the margins of Canadi...
Berlin International Film Festival
Durban International Film Festival
New Horizons Film Festival
Mpumelelo Mcata’s debut documentary feature is an inventive and complex film looking at the life and work of Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiuarai. The film uses the artist's 2011 exhibition ‘State of ...
Rotterdam International Film Festival Winner
SXSW Film Festival
Viennale Film Festival Winner
The people in Forres don't work. Between 9 and 5 they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this remot...
