Folktale Movies

Two star-crossed lovers must battle the forces which try to keep them apart at different timelines and at different world's.

Somewhere in the windy deserts of Rajasthan, a curious little boy from a family of nomadic musicians yearns to change his family’s fate through...

Tang Bohu is smitten by the stunning beauty of Qiuxiang, the maid of Grand Tutor Hua, during his visit to a monastery in Suzhou. Stalking the maid,...

Oscar is a man whose sorrow echoes at the river. He laments the death of his wife by disproving an urban legend, and he is ready for whatever crosses...

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying...

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl...

The breeze we feel everywhere is an ancient drunk man destroying everything as he goes by, until he was turned into the wind.

After getting trapped in an isolated woodland, a hunter is tormented by his former prey.

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the...

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with...

Wanting to destroy the Archer and marry his wife, the King comes up with tests for the hero.

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Based on the traditional story of a girl who makes her blind father see by donating 300 bags of rice to Bongwon Temple.

An old Hispanic folktale about a child-stealing witch becomes real in the life of a little girl who's caught between her parent's crumbling marriage...

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

a woman's spiritual journey in Ireland on All Hallow-Een

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.