Folklore Movies

14 years later, Ranjan is back in his ancestral village for his estranged father’s final rites. But his homecoming aligns with Anthiyutsavam ,a...

Martirio, the mourner, falls in love with Sagrario, the bullfighter, when she sees her fighting the only bull of their little town. In order to get...

This is footage recorded in 2005 and released years later. It concerns a low-budget paranormal show that was investigating the possible existence of...

While searching for her mother in the deep woods of 1950s Newfoundland, an isolated daughter comes across a girl straight out of the tales of...

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

In a cold January evening, Caraoscura wanders around the streets of a secluded village. Little Carla awakes scared. Lucas, her older brother, tries...

Art-naive gallery of craft guilds of Haban ceramics in Slovakia.

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

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

Why do people have jack-o'-lanterns on Halloween all year round? The answer lies in this Irish legend, where we meet the most disgusting man who made...

Inspired by an infamous online video clip of a son beating his mother, a television crew from Belgrade comes to a remote Serbian village to shoot a...

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

After successfully recapturing Semerah Padi from the terrorists who had killed his father Demang Satria, Adi Putra decides to rule Semerah Padi under...

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or...

An upcoming film. Plot TBA.

In 1863, a group of snow-bound travelers invokes the devil, who gives them a flying canoe for them to go home. When one of them finds his wife about...

A lumberjack in search of wood ventures deep into the forest until he discovers an abandoned community of lumberjacks. Inside one of the houses, he...

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...