Topic: Magic Realism

Direction Guan Hu

Cast Huang Bo · Yan Ni · Gao Hu · Hua Zi

Synopsis Dou Niu (Cow) is a movie by another sixth-generation Chinese director and is about to hit the international red carpet. Set in the winter of 1940, the movie revolves around Niu Er, a peasant who is tasked with protecting his...

Direction Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Cast Tadanobu Asano · Sinitta Boonyasak · Chermarn Boonyasak · Yutaka Matsushige

Synopsis A mysterious, obsessive-compulsive, suicidal Japanese man living in Bangkok, Thailand, is thrown together with a Thai woman through a tragic chain of events. The woman is everything he is not. He is a neat freak who keeps his dishes washed...

Direction Miguel Gomes

Cast Miguel Gomes · Carloto Cotta · Adriano Luz · Rogério Samora

Synopsis This unconventional blend of documentary and fantasy uses the stories-within-stories structure of the classic Arabian Nights to explore the lives of ordinary people in austerity-stricken, contemporary Portugal. Among the tales: A group of bankers discover a cure for impotence, a...

Direction Tom Lin Shu-yu

Cast Rene Liu · Harlem Yu · Kenneth Tsang · Hui Ming Lin

Synopsis Mei, only child of a couple on the verge of divorce, spends her time playing with puzzles of famous paintings. Jay, a new and shy boy with a great artistic talent, joins her class. A popular children book by Jimmy...

Direction Rocio Mesa

Cast Vera Centenera Carnero · Ada Mar Lupiañez Huertas · Tamara Arias · Cristina Eugenia Segura Molina

Synopsis The landscape of a rural area is filled with mysterious tobacco barns. Three generations spend the summer uncovering the secrets of these structures in a little town that is a childhood playground, a teenage cage, and an elder's memory.

Direction Emir Kusturica

Cast Johnny Depp · Faye Dunaway · Jerry Lewis · Lili Taylor

Synopsis A romantic comedy about the adventures of an innocent dreamer in the weird landscape of the American West. Caught between childhood and adulthood he finds himself back in his hometown where he becomes involved with a wealthy widow and her...

Direction Wes Anderson

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Ralph Fiennes · Ben Kingsley · Dev Patel

Synopsis A beloved Roald Dahl story about a rich man who learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes and then sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

Direction Noémie Lvovsky

Cast Luce Rodríguez · Noémie Lvovsky · Mathieu Amalric · Micha Lescot

Synopsis Mathilde is nine years old. She’s a smart little girl, but she doesn’t have many friends. Mathilde is different, or rather her life is. When she gets home, she is the one who has to take care of her mother,...

Direction Benh Zeitlin

Cast Quvenzhané Wallis · Dwight Henry · Levy Easterly · Lowell Landes

Synopsis Waters gonna rise up, wild animals gonna rerun from the grave, and everything south of the levee is goin’ under, in this tale of a six year old named Hushpuppy, who lives with her daddy at the edge of the...

Direction Wisit Sasanatieng

Cast Mahasamut Boonyaruk · Saengthong Gate-Uthong · Sawatwong Palakawong Na Autthaya · Chuck Stephens

Synopsis With force to spend her days to align sardines in cans, Pott ends up cutting his index, which he see disappearing with horror in one of the boxes intended for the supermarkets of the city. But in a marked Bangkok...

Direction Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

Cast Ángela Molina · Fernando Fernán Gómez · Margarita Lozano · Antonio Valero

Synopsis Rosa is an cantabrian woman who travel to Madrid after the Civil War. With the help of Don Pedro, a chief supplies, she opens a restaurant that transforms in a political and intelectual center.

Direction Sam Garbarski

Cast Léo Legrand · Pascal Greggory · Jonathan Zaccaï · Alexandra Maria Lara

Synopsis A grown man wakes up to discover he is a teenager again.

Direction Paolo Agazzi

Cast Darío Grandinetti · Gustavo Angarita · Elías Serrano · Guillermo Granda

Synopsis Handsome entrepeneur Abelardo Rios Clarios arrives in the sleepy little town of Villaserena, rigs up speakers throughout the village, and begins broadcasting "Radio Nobleza". For a small sum of money, they can now buy the opportunity to express publicly what...

Direction Bille August

Cast Jeremy Irons · Winona Ryder · Glenn Close · Meryl Streep

Synopsis A sweeping and brooding melodrama, spanning generations and filled with violence, revenge, and telekinesis. The tale begins in South America in 1926, when a young man, Esteban (Jeremy Irons), falls in love with the daughter of a rich man, Rosa...

Direction Cinco Paul · Ken Daurio · Barry Sonnenfeld

Cast Cecily Strong · Keegan-Michael Key · Alan Cumming · Kristin Chenoweth

Synopsis TV Series (2021-). First Season: 6 Episodes. A couple (Cecily Strong & Keegan-Michael Key) on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship discover a magical town in which everyone is living in a musical from the 1940s. They then...

Direction Rungano Nyoni

Cast Maggie Mulubwa · Gloria Huwiler · Travers Merrill · Chileshe Kalimamukwento

Synopsis After a minor incident in her village in Zambia, 9-year-old Shula is exiled to a travelling witch camp where she is told that if she tries to escape she will be transformed into a white goat. She must decide whether...

Direction Jared Bush · Byron Howard · Charise Castro Smith

Synopsis Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has...

Direction Károly Ujj Mészáros

Cast Mónika Balsai · Szabolcs Bede Fazekas · David Sakurai · Piroska Molnár

Direction Wes Anderson

Cast Rupert Friend · Ralph Fiennes · Asa Jennings · Benoît Herlin

Synopsis Two large, ignorant bullies ruthlessly pursue a small, brilliant boy in this young adult Roald Dahl short story. Starring:Rupert Friend and Ralph Fiennes

Direction Marjane Satrapi · Vincent Paronnaud

Cast Mathieu Amalric · María de Medeiros · Isabella Rossellini · Golshifteh Farahani

Synopsis Nasser-Ali, a talented musician, loses the will to live after his wife breaks his beloved violin during an argument. He searches for a replacement, and finding none that sounds quite the same, he vows to die. Eight days later, he...