Folktale Filmes

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

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

Night after night, Bodřík dutifully protects his master's humble farm and livestock from prowling wolves. But when his master decides...

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl...

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...

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

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...

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's...

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

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...

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...

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...

Jack Crow sets out in search of a job as a servant. He helps the ant, the crow and the fish on the way. For his help, each one of them gives him a...