Folktale Filmes

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

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

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...

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...

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

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

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...

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

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...

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

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

A woman encounters a hitchhiker in the middle of the night while driving. From there, things spiral into absurdity, blurring the lines between what's...

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...

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

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

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!...

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