Movies: Folktale

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An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll....

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 an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style....

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him....

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A horror short that takes on the Southern tradition of covering mirrors that face your bed. If not covered, it is believed that spirits will enter your world or drag you into theirs. A new look at the old wives' tales we use to keep us safe. When a y...

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl outwits a witch and an ogre to save herself and her sisters. Part of the PBS series "From the Brothers Gr...

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

During a tour of his country, King Matthias the just, comes across a sign in a village: The judge of this village does not have a care in the world! Well, the King gives him an assignment, saying if he does not solve it, he will be beheaded. The judg...

When asked by her father, the youngest daughter of the king answers: I love you like people love salt. The king is very annoyed and chases his daughter into the forest. The young king of the neighbouring country finds her, and they decide to get marr...

Once upon a time there was a farmer who had three sons: the youngest was a bit slow. Nevertheless, he acquires the golden slipper of the princess and hides it....

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

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World....

A woman has 12 daughters and they were so cheeky that once their mother said in anger: "I wish you turned into jackdaws". Immediately the 12 girls turned into jackdaws and flew away. Later on, a son was born to the woman, who heard the story of his s...

To preserve family history and rectify a family myth, an eccentric 80-something-year-old man needs to prove his long-lost sister can fly....

A record in moving images of a timeless dimension, the tragedy takes place in a dark void where the voiceless ones enact their drama in a theatre of infatuation, power and vengeance. The force of the roar reverberates as insanity erupts from total st...

The smallest son of the king has to find a bride for himself in the forest. But he finds only a kitty cat....

Once upon a time there was a king who had a beautiful daughter. A sky-high tree stood in the middle of their garden. One day the wind caught the princess and lifted her to the top of the tree, into the castle of the three-headed dragon. A swineherd 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 the magic and belief imbibed by his grandmothers folk tales....