Folklore Movies

Dark powers roam free, a woman dreams of a poppy field and her funeral.

Two Chinese tourists swap their megacity for the Dutch village of Giethoorn where the hosts work hard to provide for them the authentic Dutch...

A poor stonecutter seeks the lifestyles of those higher in the social hierarchy.

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

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...

This 3 minute short film follows the morning of a young woman and explores a surreal connection between dreams and reality and how childhood...

A Christian couple who, after experiencing a devastating miscarriage, purchase an abandoned farm with a dark past. Their love and faith are soon...

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

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

"Who plays me, hears my voices”, shows a recent moment in the life of Gaston Lafourcade, a classical pianist and harpsichordist who, at the age...

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

Whilst house-sitting in a secluded home in Scotland, Aarya, an expressionist painter, is gifted a red scarf sent by her aunt from Pakistan, and...

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

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...

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

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...

A West African folk tale about a spider who is presented with a dilemma when each of his six sons saves his life and he must determine which one he...