Folklore Movies

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

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...

A powerful cultural documentary about a Caribbean father and son who return to Grenada to reclaim ancestral stories. Blending folklore, myth, and...

In a room with two doors, one wooden and the other glass, Rosa realises that roses die when she touches them and confronts Grandma Rosa.

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

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...

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

Padraig, a guilt laden and grief stricken man seeks the help of an eccentric carpenter, John, to help him build a coffin for his already dead and...

A group of teenagers go out to a den in the woods for a night of drinking, unaware that their behaviour touches on issues of ritual, folklore,...

The story of Daedalus and Icarus

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

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

Two friends are sent deep into a forest by a strange man, while out there, they are launched into a game of survival as a Welsh folk tale sprouts to...

Hidden deep in the remote Norwegian woods, a solitary woman lives in a small cabin, unaware that a mythical creature from her mother’s...

Documentary about the concerts of the Russian Osipov ensemble of folk instruments in Czechoslovakia

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go...