Folktale Movies

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl...

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is...

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him.

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Tang Bohu is smitten by the stunning beauty of Qiuxiang, the maid of Grand Tutor Hua, during his visit to a monastery in Suzhou. Stalking the maid,...

A record in moving images of a timeless dimension, the tragedy takes place in a dark void where the voiceless ones enact their drama in a theatre of...

Sidney is walking her dog in the forest when she loses track of him. While searching for him she uncovers notes and remains that imply something...

a woman's spiritual journey in Ireland on All Hallow-Een

Oscar is a man whose sorrow echoes at the river. He laments the death of his wife by disproving an urban legend, and he is ready for whatever crosses...

Joe, a high school boy, travels to the South. To reveal the truth about a mysterious death thirty years ago. Until, on the night of the halo moon, he...

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom...

Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple.

After getting trapped in an isolated woodland, a hunter is tormented by his former prey.

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the...

A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's...

Somewhere in the windy deserts of Rajasthan, a curious little boy from a family of nomadic musicians yearns to change his family’s fate through...