Folklore Filmes

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

A filmmaker investigates the legend of the Black Shuck, a ghost dog terrorizing the Suffolk area.

"If it Won’t Hold Water, it Surely Won’t Hold a Goat" is an intimate meditation on the subversive nature of goats and their effect on the...

For the 'Are'are people of the Solomon Islands, the most valued music is that of the four types of panpipe ensembles. With the exception of slit...

The folkloric group "Nzale," founded in 1979 in Bangui, practices a traditional dance called "M'baka M'Bokou," which means "strength" and is a symbol...

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go...

AWAKE is a short experimental documentary about a liminal moment in the calendar - midwinter - observed by the inhabitants of a small rural village...

An anthropological research on the survival of the supernatural in traditional culture. Shot in different locations in southern Italy, the...

Padraig, a guilt laden and grief stricken man seeks the help of an eccentric carpenter, John, to help him build a coffin for his already dead and...

The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot...

In a remote area of northern Spain, the wind has a name: Tramuntana. Tramuntana takes what it wants—clothes, trees, boats, and the people of...

Martirio, the mourner, falls in love with Sagrario, the bullfighter, when she sees her fighting the only bull of their little town. In order to get...

An animated retelling of a Pueblo tale, in which a mysterious boy seeks his father.

A lumberjack in search of wood ventures deep into the forest until he discovers an abandoned community of lumberjacks. Inside one of the houses, he...