Movies: Folktale

An old Hispanic folktale about a child-stealing witch becomes real in the life of a little girl who's caught between her parent's crumbling marriage and the creatures that torment her....

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take...

Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero....

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

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 the magic and belief imbibed by his grandmothers folk tales....

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

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 his path --- even death....

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, Tang's affections are finally reciprocated with three charming smiles. To approach the fair maid, Tang...

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides it’s time to get a younger dog to guard the farm, Bodřík is sent to stay in the junkyard. The first night without Bo...

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind....

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 infatuation, power and vengeance. The force of the roar reverberates as insanity erupts from total st...

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

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 wanting it back....

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

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

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale....

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl outwits a witch and an ogre to save herself and her sisters. Part of the PBS series "From the Brothers Gr...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp...

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 background of the Irish countryside, the customary "rich but dumb" characters meet their match in the "poor...