Folktale Movies

Firefly Marsh is a fog-enshrouded corner of the world, steeped in mystery. Stories of what lurks in the dark waters date back to Indian lore. But...

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

The story takes place in modern-day eastern Serbia, still fertile ground for various forms of superstition and prejudice. Zorica is a village girl...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...