Movies: Folklore

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or “dwarf”) is a magical little treat in which the titular tiny hero and his brothers must outwit the child-eating Div....

A girl returns from the dead as a penanggalan (a detached female head capable of flying about on its own) to gain her revenge on a gang of thugs that raped and murdered her....

Six part TV series where Karpo Godina filmed common folk, showing the world of people who have filled their lives with hobbies and skills of their own making. It features gold panners on the river Pek, a shepherdess who plays music on a leaf, a footb...

When the neglected and unloved brother Mavungu finally leaves home, he finds a tree blocking the river and frees the people imprisoned within the tree. Based on a folk tale from the Congo....

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Aarya leaves her family in the city to pursue her passion for the arts. She is gifted a red scarf, and is haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South Asian Witch....

Count Dracula has come to Thailand in order to search for the missing mother of his son. Suddenly his kid gets kidnapped by a werewolf who needs to drink the blood of a vampire child in order to gain immortality....

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An academic and a private detective investigate mysteries with supernatural roots in the dark side of Mexican folklore....

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for future generations. Similarly, he records and interprets traditions associated with dance, folk song a...

Three aspiring filmmakers are hired to film a documentary about the legends of a local cemetery. While filming; BJ, Katlin, and Brandon begin to realize that the haunted legends that surround the cemetery aren't just local folklore. As the haunting i...

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the spec...

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A short stay in a Cornish Town....

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

Don Melcho peddles his political influence in his town and take advantage of his impoverished neighbors. An ambiguous character who may or may not expand his power....

AWAKE is a short experimental documentary about a liminal moment in the calendar - midwinter - observed by the inhabitants of a small rural village in England. A time outside time, magic is everywhere and anything is possible. Bearing witness to this...

A teenage actress makes a fateful deal in an attempt to grab Broadway stardom, and everything begins to fall apart....