Folklore Movies

It is based on Perumthachan of the Parayi Petta Panthirukulam, a legend in the Kerala folklore. The problems caused by the generation gap are...

Fishing, friendship, and wrestling with your new favorite superhero.

Five friends arrive at a solitary Airbnb for a quiet getaway. But when strange occurrences disrupt their boredom, they begin to suspect an unseen...

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

This exhaustive documentary attempts to tell the history of Bram Stoker's influential novel Dracula, explaining both the historical antecedents to...

Ten-year-old Janek has a vivid imagination. He constantly makes things up and imagines himself as a superhero. When the demonic Utopiec replaces his...

When a folklore-obsessed Instagrammer livestreams her visit to a haunted wood, her viewers get a glimpse of the truth behind the legends.

A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.

A sailor, known as the Adventurer, searching for a lost American explorer discovers him being held hostage on a remote island in the South Sea. The...

Isolated and longing for a friend, Young Anneka meets a floating light that takes her to a wide endless wheatfield to play but time flies by and she...

The peculiar Fanoš Mikulecký is the originator of many well-known songs from Podluží, generally considered folk songs. Next...

Chan Kwai-sheung visits the brothel with So Tung-bo while his wife, Lau Yuk-ngo, is sleeping. As this is the first time Sheung did this, Ngo wants...

A short film about traditional crafts and culture that can still be found in the Wallachian mountains today.

The film is inspired by the life of the Goral population in the Orava region, a life connected with the beautiful but harsh nature, rich in emotional...

As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their...