Movies: Folklore

Produced at the start of the golden age of Azerbaijani animation, Akhundov and Efendiyev’s Jirtdan (meaning “small” or “dwarf”) is a magical little treat in which the titular tiny hero and his brothers must outwit the child-eating Div....

An audiovisual poem. Cryptic whispers speak of a mysterious being, known only to forgotten folklore, that has travelled across distant lands to haunt citizens of a neon-drenched city....

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The story of Daedalus and Icarus...

Don Melcho peddles his political influence in his town and take advantage of his impoverished neighbors. An ambiguous character who may or may not expand his power....

Three aspiring filmmakers are hired to film a documentary about the legends of a local cemetery. While filming; BJ, Katlin, and Brandon begin to realize that the haunted legends that surround the cemetery aren't just local folklore. As the haunting i...

National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje....

In a room with two doors, one wooden and the other glass, Rosa realises that roses die when she touches them and confronts Grandma Rosa....

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the spec...

A teenage actress makes a fateful deal in an attempt to grab Broadway stardom, and everything begins to fall apart....

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 becomes haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South-Asian Witch....

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A young Screenwriter and Director are reading together the script they are going to film. They agree to tell a story about the nature of human behavior but forget that they are also human....

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

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