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...

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying...

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

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...

Classic kaidan ghost story set in the Edo period

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...

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...

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

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

Joe, a high school boy, travels to the South. To reveal the truth about a mysterious death thirty years ago. Until, on the night of the halo moon, he...

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...

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!...

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

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

There's a "silver lining in every cloud" as Donald O'Neary turns every misfortune his two neighbours can engineer into gold coins. Against the...

Sidney is walking her dog in the forest when she loses track of him. While searching for him she uncovers notes and remains that imply something...