Folklore Movies

An animated retelling of a Pueblo tale, in which a mysterious boy seeks his father.

Ghost Island follows a team of paranormal investigators to a desolate island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Amid eerie ruins and whispered legends,...

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...

A West African folk tale about a spider who is presented with a dilemma when each of his six sons saves his life and he must determine which one he...

A young woman desperately tries to conceal her identity and lives a normal life in her community, but is compelled by a curse that brings her into...

A documentary filmed in the mountainous region of Agrafa, Eurytania, in Greece.

During a winter storm, a man staggers home after a long night of drinking. Some time later, there is a ruckus that echoes through-out the house. The...

Four college students from Shandong University of Technology planned to make a documentary about the folk culture of ghosts and spirits. They went to...

Obinagụ is not human. They are a spirit who walks among us, taking the form of a worker each day, only to return each evening to the forest...

A poor stonecutter seeks the lifestyles of those higher in the social hierarchy.

An audiovisual poem. Cryptic whispers speak of a mysterious being, known only to forgotten folklore, that has travelled across distant lands to haunt...

Record 51. Horehronie Days of Singing and Dancing in Heľpa.

A magically abstract triportrait of Estonian kannel master Eduard Uibo, dancer Elonna Spriit and folk dance pedagogue Kai Leete.

Eli awakens in the forest to find himself in the company of two mysterious men who plan to kill a creature of folklore.