Films in the border between fiction and documentary
I'd like to add Tempo (1991), an ironic mockumentary by Jorge Furtado: https://vimeo.com/239625928
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- DirectorMurray WoronerStarsRocky MarcianoMuhammad AliJimmy BraddockFictional boxing match between two of the greatest heavyweights of all time.
- DirectorOswaldo MontenegroStarsRenato GóesVanessa GiácomoRenato LucianoSolitudes goes from laugh to drama, from musical to documentary, from romantic comedy to mean satire, keeping loneliness focused in all its aspects at all times, in many stories that are linked to each other.
- DirectorHerbert J. BibermanStarsJuan ChacónRosaura RevueltasWill GeerMexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
- DirectorOlney São PauloStarsIbere CavalcantiJanet ChermontSonélio CostaA couple is arrested and tortured after taking part in a political demonstration, being sentenced to death.
- DirectorCarlos MayoloLuis OspinaStarsLuis Alfonso LondoñoCarlos MayoloRamiro ArbeláezFictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery with mercantilist purposes. It is a scathing criticism "porno-misery" and the opportunism of the dishonest documentary making "socio-political documentaries" in the third world to sell them in Europe and win prizes.
- DirectorLuis OspinaStarsArturo AlapeJotamario ArbeláezJoe BroderickThe life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view.
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsLuciano Arrais AndradeGraça AraújoPedro BandeiraIn tropical Recife, in northeastern Brazil, temperatures drop to impossible lows and the inhabitants have to adapt. This 'mockumentary' gradually turns critical, looking at the climate, urban development and social interaction from every angle. Does a ray of sun pierce the clouds, after all?Very nice Brazilian mockumentary!
https://youtu.be/U9mu2TJ0scY - DirectorJamie UysStarsN!xauMarius WeyersSandra PrinslooA comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsPaulo JoséCiça ReckziegelDouglas TraininiThe ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce of a pork meat; to the garbage can since it is spoiled for the consumption; to a garbage truck to be dumped in a garbage dump in "Ilha das Flores"; to the selection of nutriment for pigs by the employees of a pigs breeder; to become food for poor Brazilian people.
- DirectorMikhail KalatozovStarsSergio CorrieriSalvador WoodJosé GallardoFour vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- DirectorDavid WnendtStarsOliver MasucciThomas M. KöpplMarc-Marvin IsraelAdolf Hitler wakes up in the 21st century. He quickly gains media attention, but while Germany finds him hilarious and charming, Hitler makes some serious observations about society.
- DirectorJorge FurtadoStarsIlana KaplanAntônio Carlos FalcãoFlavia MoraesA humored sketch from the TV show "Dóris para Maiores" (1991). A fake documentary about the fictional German filmmaker Volker Freunden talking about his fake pioneer horror film shot in the 1920's in the city of Novo Hamburgo in Porto Alegre.Hilarious mockumentary.
- DirectorLuiz BolognesiStarsPerpera SuruíEver since their first contact with the Western world in 1969 the Paiter Suruí, an indigenous people living in the Amazon basin, have been exposed to sweeping social changes. Smartphones, gas, electricity, medicines, weapons and social media have now replaced their traditional way of life. Illness is a risk for a community increasingly unable to isolate itself from the modernization brought by white people or the power of the church. Ethnocide threatens to destroy their soul. With dogged persistence, Perpera, a former shaman, is searching for a way to restore the old vitality to his village.
- DirectorGilberto ScarpaStarsCristiano AbudAna Luísa AlvesTeuda Bara"Os Filmes Que Não Fiz" shows in a fun and cynical way the filmography of a completely unknown director who has many projects and scripts, but has no film produced.http://portacurtas.org.br/filme/?name=os_filmes_que_nao_fiz
- DirectorJosé Alvarenga Jr.StarsDaniel de OliveiraOsmar PradoRavel AndradeThe history of the famous Brazilian bantam and featherweight world champion Eder Jofre, who tries to deal with his personal life and the obligations of a world class athlete, with the mentoring of his trainer and father Kid Jofre.Real fight footage.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsHéloïse GodetKamel AbdelliRichard ChevallierA silent, surreal parallel between a couple and a dog.
- DirectorPedro MarquesClaudia PriscillaStarsLaerte CoutinhoMicaela CampionKiko GoifmanThe cartoonist Laerte goes a long way through São Paulo searching for a certificate.https://vimeo.com/42651791
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoStarsMarília PêraAndrea BeltrãoFernanda TorresFollowing a newspaper ad, ordinary women tell part of their life stories to director Eduardo Coutinho, which are then re-enacted by actresses, blurring the barriers between truth, fiction and interpretation.
- DirectorTata AmaralStarsGustavo BrandãoGeorgina CastroMaria Helena ChiraTelmo writes a play to remind him of his past and of the period he was kept prisoner in the dungeons of the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985), revealing secrets he would rather keep forgotten.
- DirectorPere PortabellaStarsChristopher LeeHerbert LomSoledad MirandaAn analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Count Dracula (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.
- DirectorFlávia CastroMariana ChenilloPablo FendrikStarsGael García BernalEstefania PiñeresUnder the creative direction of Gael Garcia Bernal, ten award-winning directors tell the story of the high school dropout crisis in Latin America in an anthology of narrative and documentary film as beautifully diverse and complex as the region. Travel to seven different countries and explore the underlying reasons why nearly one out of every two students never makes it to graduation day.
- DirectorIsabel PenoniLeonardo SetteAfter they find out that their husbands have mysteriously transformed into raging pigs the women of the village decide to take action.More about the film: http://portacurtas.org.br/filme/?name=porcos_raivosos
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsColman 'Tiger' KingMaggie DirraneMichael DirraneIn this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.