Movies: Reality vs fantasy

Conflict between son and mother....

Aliff is a socially reclusive student who has an ability to see supernatural beings from another dimension. All along, he has learnt to ignore the spirits and never tells anybody about his ability, until he is unwittingly dragged into protecting his ...

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Charlie and Emi return to do a sketch that doesn't go as planned when reality gets in their way....

In a cemetery on the ocean shore, teenager Aïda follows her desire to bring to life her long dead father....

A burnout theatre student finds himself in a fantasy realm materialized by the nighttime stories his mother used to tell him every night as a child....

After a feverish dream, a paralysed dreamer finds themselves trapped within a purgatory of their sleep, as they begin to fuse with their bed. The purgatory begins to refract the dreamers mind, as they are confronted with multiple incarnations of them...

The wind carries an aspiring healer into a chaotic, virulent parallel world. Paralyzed by a familiar universe that is gradually becoming distorted, she discovers she has the power to stop time....

The fantastic love story of beeboy and flowergirl, whom are falling in love hopelessly. A life together requires them to face the hard reality, which soon threatens to break them apart as well as their love....

How many movies have you seen where at the end the main character wakes up, causing he and the audience to simultaneously realize that everything they witnessed beforehand was "just a dream?" This film takes that principal but instead of deceiving, t...

It's your last day in the office, and you have company....

A tale about isolation and lack of communication, the gap between the reality a teenage boy lives, and how he would like it be. He has a secret that he would like to tell his family, something that he has come to terms with and is about to affect the...

A young woman navigates a world where everything is paid for by credits....

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house, and they chat as they used to....

Hala, an 8-year-old girl, lives a difficult life with her brother Amir and their cruel stepmother. To escape her painful reality, Hala retreats into a fantasy world, finding solace from the harshness around her. However, one question continues to ha...

When a dysfunctional couple sits down for a home cooked meal, tensions begin to rise as passive-aggressive remarks are thrown back and forth across the table, causing fantasies to swirl in their heads about violently harming each other....

A genre breaking psychological fantasy film, following one of 12 archetypes, The Hero, attempting to complete his quest of self discovery. In this world devoid of life apart from these 12 archetypes, Hero finds he is left with only one final person t...

A film in which dream and reality intertwine, A Moça do Calendário tells the story of inácio, 40, married, without a permanent job. Ex-street sweeper, he works as a mechanic at Barato da Pesada, where he dreams of the calendar girl....

L'Idiot follows Rajat "Rinku" Chaddha, an awkward, daydreaming young man obsessed with French culture, as he attempts to win over Mona, a charismatic girl in his French class. With the help of a local thief, Rinku devises a plan to become Mona's hero...

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl....