Folktale Movies

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

Cheluvi, a poor young woman, has a secret magical power. With the magic, she turns into a tree which produces exotic flowers. Soon, her secret is...

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

The tale of an old ghost story - A disheveled mariner is haunted by an ominously fervorous bed-sheet ghost

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

A short film that asks "What if, after the boy cried 'wolf', the rest of the town started doing it too?"

Like many St. Lawrence Island legends, this story is set in Siberia where Chukchi, the Reindeer People, live. Pelaasi, an elder from Gambell, speaks...