Folktale Movies

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

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

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

Newlywed couple Jack and Laura move to a village where a legend says marble knight effigies in the church come alive on Christmas Eve. Jack dismisses...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and...

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

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...

The poor man’s three sons wanted to get married but their father allowed marrying first only that boy who obtains the most beautiful flower,...

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!...

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