Screw It, I'll Play Make Believe (2011)

Пройдохи Денни и Уиллер — представители компании, торгующей энергетическими напитками. Однажды они переворачивают хозяйский грузовик и отправляются под суд. Чтобы не оказаться за решеткой, бедокуры решают схитрить и поучаствовать в многочасовой воспитательной программе для детей. Через день они понимают, что лучше бы выбрали тюрьму. Денни выпала нелегка доля: сделать из сопливого шестнадцатилетнего паренька, одержимого средневековыми постановками, настоящего мужчину. Меж тем, Уиллер воспитывает пятиклассника Ронни.

Большая группа увлеченных костюмированных ролевиков, разодетая в рыцарей, эльфов и других персонажей, отключает свои мобильники и направляется в леса Нью-Джерси в Сообщество рыцарей Badassdom, где они собираются воспроизвести сценарий подземелий и драконов (dungeons and dragons) прямиком из мифического средневековья.

Робби становится участником захватывающей игры. Незаметно для себя он настолько увлекается ею, что не может отличить, где вымысел, а где реальность. Такой поворот событий чуть было ни стоил Робби жизни.

A MODERN MEDIEVAL SAGA, The Wild Hunt tells the story of Erik Magnusson, a young man who decides to follow his estranged girlfriend Evelyn into a medieval re-enactment game when he discovers that she has been seduced by one of the players. As the down-to-earth Erik treks deeper into the game in search of his love, he inadvertently disrupts the delicate balance of the make believe fantasy-land. Passions are unleashed. Rules are broken. Reality and fantasy collide. The good-hearted game turns into a tragedy of mythic proportion... Capturing the culture of costume play and the potentially dangerous intersection of real and made-up worlds, The Wild Hunt is a timely and potent comment on the consuming nature of adopting another identity, even within a game, and the modern yearning for ritual.

Welcome to Monster Camp, the true story about a world where people transform into creatures, heroes, and monsters to escape their daily lives. In the vein of Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft, and Dungeons and Dragons; these enthusiasts have developed a complicated world to bring their fantasies to life. Romantic relationships are forged between characters. Friendships are destroyed over plot disputes. Characters are slain and never return. But keeping this world alive takes a lot of real world work. And unless someone is willing to take charge, the fantasy may be lost forever.

Every year during summer one of the biggest battles of mankind takes place amidst the hillsides of middle earth. Knights, elves and magicians are fighting orcs and the dark powers. What looks like a scene from Lord of the Rings actually takes place in a field in Germany, where thousands of role players meet to plunge into a fantasy world of their own. More than 250.000 people in Germany regularly make this transition. The documentary accompanies five role players in their daily lives and their parallel ones. Where does their yearning for a shared world of fantasy come from? What does this reveal about our hectic, technological life? Sunday warriors is a film about the passion for playing and the ambition to exceed your limits.

Darkon is an award-winning feature-length documentary film that follows the real-life adventures of the Darkon Wargaming Club in Baltimore, Maryland, a group of fantasy live-action role-playing (LARP) gamers.

The Dungeon Masters explores the subculture of role-playing games, specifically Dungeons & Dragons, which for over 30 years has offered gamers the chance to escape their mundane lives and participate in a world they might otherwise never experience. Popularity and power are based on creativity and imagination rather than social status or wealth, and success is based not on who you know but on what you do.

Подробный рассказ о том, как World of Darkness и Vampire: The Masquerade стали культурным феноменом 90-х. Эта серия ролевых игр повлияла на фильмы, литературу, моду, клубную культуру и изменила навсегда жизнь многих людей.

A coming of age saga about a 14-year old boy whose life alternates between the medieval fantasy kingdom of Adria and the real world trials of a challenging adolescence.

Caught between two worlds, one real and one imagined, three filmmakers have travelled 4000-miles across Europe to understand Live Action Role-Play (LARP), the hobby where these worlds collide. In its essence, LARP is an extension of how you experienced games as a child. When tabletop games grew too big for the board, players put down their dice, picked up their swords, and have been playing make-believe ever since. The culmination of years-old conversations in a local pub, Treasure Trapped is part-documentary, part-road movie; a film that charts the journey of Mike, Al and Nick, as they explore this often misunderstood pastime. Casting a unique look over a worldwide community that is known for its eccentricities, this project aspires to bring the hobby to the masses. Game on!

Финская девушка Веера — с виду почти эльф с раскрашенными синим фломастером волосами — отправляется в замок в польской глуши, чтобы поучаствовать в масштабной ролевой игре по мотивам Гарри Поттера. Вскоре становится понятно, что для героини путешествия в выдуманные миры не просто хобби, а способ изжить травмы детства, проведенного с отцом-алкоголиком и старшим братом с особенностями развития. Во время игры она не Веера, а Вэ — персонаж, по ее собственным словам, «неизменно счастливый», но дома ее ждут тяжелые разговоры с матерью, постоянная тревога за брата и сеансы психотерапии.

Meet Jon Gallagher, a LARPer with Asperger's syndrome, and see how LARPing helps him make friends, learn social skills, get a job, and in many ways, saves his life.

Über Goober focuses on the often-misunderstood, sometimes-controversial, and always-kind-of-geeky world of Gamers. Director Steve Metze examines several different groups including historical miniature gamers, role-players, and those known simply as "LARPers." The film also explores opposition from religious groups, negative media portrayals, and some of the meanest 'man-on-the-street' interviews ever committed to video. Meet the Gamers, learn their exotic language, see their bizarre rituals, gasp at their semi-authentic costumes, and thrill to the painting techniques on their miniatures!

Follows two years in the life of Greg Sommer, aka Skull Man, as he builds the Canadian chapter of Box Wars, an international underground movement of cardboard-based combat.

A documentary about three people with an extraordinary hobby: live Game (LARP). A weekend to be someone else, experience adventure, fight battles, be a child again; recovery from reality and yourself.

For some it's a cathartic release, and for others a means of escape, but for everyone who chooses to commit the time and expenses of doing it, Live-Action Role-Playing is addictive fun that allows fully grown adults to engage in the magical realm of make-believe-- a place that, as we all age, becomes increasingly less accessible.

Records the battle for the survival of the big cats and reveals intimate details of their lives. The animals they prey on are also in the film: tigers couldn’t survive without sika deer, Altai wapiti, wild boars and Asian black bears. Guiding the viewer through the film, an elder tiger tells the story of his cub, born in a conservation area, the year after he leaves his mother.

Aaron Paul, Vince Gilligan and other cast members, producers and crew share stories and footage from the making of "El Camino."

Survivors and insiders recount March 11, 2004's terrorist attack on Madrid, including the political crisis it ignited and the hunt for the perpetrators.