Folklore Movies

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and...

Nicu, a young Roma man living in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of London, discovers the body of a fellow migrant and takes his jar of cash....

Tâm is a young delivery worker whose heart condition from birth leads him into a strange folk ritual called 'lying in a coffin' – a...

Seven years prior to the breach of the mystical Saranjana portal, a remote stilt village built upon the treacherous swamps of interior Kalimantan...

Two young women arrive in a town at a scenic lake, the day after carnival. On the shore lays the body of a man in a wig, with a shark fin attached to...

A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself....

Minik and Hans are best friends in their early twenties in Greenland. Minik being down and Hans trying to cheer him up they look for an some...

A grieving mother's ancient curse targets a troubled family, forcing them to confront their own hidden past while fighting to survive her...

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background...

A gothic Jewish fairytale. In 1840s Poland, Beulah cares for her leprous mother-in-law while seeking a divorce. With nowhere else to turn, she builds...

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...

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

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

Nie Xiaoqian was betrayed and died with hatred. She turned into a ghost after death and was imprisoned in Lanruo Temple. Ning Sheng went to Capital...

The millennia-old myth and tradition of St. Lucy's fire told through the eyes of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.

Aakasa Ramanna is a Telugu language film starring Kanta Rao and Rajashree in lead roles. The film was released in the year 1965 and has been directed...

The magic of the dances of Mexico. A tour of Sinaloa, Michoacán, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Veracruz in one place.

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

In this highly theatrical TV production, Monteiro again draws on the world of folklore – and, more precisely, on the widespread sexual...