Folktale Movies

Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is...

A short film that asks "What if, after the boy cried 'wolf', the rest of the town started doing it too?"

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...

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

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

Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks...

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

To preserve family history and rectify a family myth, an eccentric 80-something-year-old man needs to prove his long-lost sister can fly.

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with...

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...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

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...

Loosely inspired by folk tales, this film chronicles the mystical journey of a quartet of ageing animals fleeing their fates to find a place free...

The tale of an old ghost story - A disheveled mariner is haunted by an ominously fervorous bed-sheet ghost

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.