Movies and TvShows featuring "hybrid-documentary" theme.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brute Force explores how our knowledge-making practices affect the world. Drawing on quantum theory and geology, the film exposes the intrinsic omissions, distortions, and ecological impacts of image production and data extraction. From the interference patterns of neutrons to data centres and salt lakes, the film captures how our world's complexity collides with the simplified rationalities of the digital age.

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.

Footage of a no-longer-couple celebrating New Year's Eve 2024 in the center of Jakarta with a roar of happiness, and the chanting of a flute from an unknown man.

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.

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.