Reality vs Fiction - IR is a communication site between reality and fiction to get a better understanding of International Relations. International politics is a fascinating area of study that we can also know through movies, documentaries, and TV series. These audiovisual products are not only entertainment, but also a potential source of knowledge to learning concepts, theories, and facts. Their portrayal of events and processes of international relations effectively reconstructs them on a narrative basis that often, either intentionally or unintentionally, ends up shaping perceptions, interpretations, attitudes and imaginary around practices of international politics. Cinema, documentaries, and TV series reproduce, weaken, hide, exaggerate, strengthen, manipulate or subvert concerns, interests, goals, and aspirations in the real world. This construction and reconstruction of reality and fiction constitutes an exercise of reflectivity where movie characters represent actual relevant individuals, whereas real people and groups emulate cinematic representations.

Thus a dialectic process is established between political practices and representation modes in audiovisual products.

Reality vs Fiction - IR reflects upon this dialectic process with original reviews in English, Catalan, and Spanish, where critical analyses are made about the audiovisual construction that cinema, documentaries, and TV series portray of international politics. At the same time, this reflection pave the way for a better understanding of theories, concepts, and facts in international relations, as complementary support of knowledge produced in university classrooms and specialized works on the matter.