Folklore Movies

A woman is forced to continue working while one of her colleagues lies unconscious on the floor due to the long, hot work days. This fact causes...

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his...

In a remote area of northern Spain, the wind has a name: Tramuntana. Tramuntana takes what it wants—clothes, trees, boats, and the people of...

In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death.

Based on Kazakh fairy tales about the wise scoffer, defender of the poor.

Exploring the obsessive, compulsive, and competitive side of the dance world, Seize deconstructs the festive, enchanting, and imperfect image of...

Three starving fishermen encounter something unexpected on a remote island in the 1890's. A visual mystery story with horror elements.

Inspired by an infamous online video clip of a son beating his mother, a television crew from Belgrade comes to a remote Serbian village to shoot a...

In a land of promises and spirits, Mangdavalo's vow binds him as a ghost, while Padmavati's world crumbles with arranged marriage. Their love defies...

Aruz, who lost his son during migration, one day finds a strange creature with one eye on his head, brings him to the village and raises him as his...

A fragmented collection of legends born from the rubble of the catastrophic Friuli Earthquake of May 6, 1976.

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

A homeless man living in a derelict building is obsessed with a vision of a mysterious woman that visits him every night. Inspired by a fable from...

During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the...

Ukonvaaja - The Hammer of Ukko - is a documentary film that focuses on ancient Finnish folklore and mythology.

A young Screenwriter and Director are reading together the script they are going to film. They agree to tell a story about the nature of human...

This 3 minute short film follows the morning of a young woman and explores a surreal connection between dreams and reality and how childhood...