Movies and TvShows featuring "hybrid-documentary" theme.

My Winnipeg is a docufiction that combines elements of documentary and fictional storytelling to explore director Guy Maddin's hometown of Winnipeg. The film delves into the city's history, superstitions, and unique character, using a mix of personal anecdotes, home-movie footage, and surreal reenactments. It offers a nostalgic and poetic look at the city through the lens of Maddin's singular vision.

In a post-racial society, racist thought thrives. To confront this reality, Dr. Kendi's book explores the development, dissemination, and enshrinement of racist ideas in American society.

When his older boyfriend loses interest in him, the filmmaker relocates to Chicago and uses dating apps to cast new lovers in an amorphous project that his mother hates.

Four rejected asylum seekers relive their reasons for fleeing their home countries and question the core of the asylum process itself.

Ever since the onset of her dementia, reality, dream and nightmare have become intertwined for Rose, making her something like a maverick time traveler. Her filmmaker daughter Rea Tajiri is also her caregiver. In this fond portrait, she visualizes Rose’s spiritual, philosophical and sometimes surprisingly specific stories in the order they come: a non-linear sequence illustrated by her own footage shot over many years, accompanied by snatches of conversations and images from the family archive. Rose’s eventful journey through time is rich with memories and sensitively accompanied by a fitting soundtrack.

A film about extras, loneliness, the need to be seen, clowns and dreams. The extras want fellowship and friendship, lines and more lines, to be the center of attention and to be someone else, if only for a day.

This documentary interweaves fantastical re-imaginings of buried secrets with the Deathless Woman’s ghostly narration and testimony from survivors and witnesses of historic and contemporary crimes against the Roma in Poland and Hungary.

A book is buried under a mango tree in a backyard in Cape Verde, initiating a journey to reconstruct a fictional, geographic, emotional, and identitary cartography of loss, based on the five stages of grief.