Folklore Movies

An independent investigative journalist is on a mission to solve a string of strange deaths occurring in the forests of Western Newfoundland. What...

Inspired by an infamous online video clip of a son beating his mother, a television crew from Belgrade comes to a remote Serbian village to shoot a...

When Hannah travels to Sweden to surprise her boyfriend and meet his parents, she begins to suspect that his family is hiding a monstrous secret.

Two young women arrive in a town at a scenic lake, the day after carnival. On the shore lays the body of a man in a wig, with a shark fin attached to...

The visual style of the film is inspired by ancient tribal symbols, which constantly morph into each other. They represent life in a womb-like frame.

About a mysterious and troubled black woman, a former practitioner of the Santería religion, who must comes to terms with her background...

As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their...

Exploring the obsessive, compulsive, and competitive side of the dance world, Seize deconstructs the festive, enchanting, and imperfect image of...

Doina, a shepherd’s wife in ancient Romania, turns her daily routine into ritual. When nature foretells his death, her journey through grief...

A gothic Jewish fairytale. In 1840s Poland, Beulah cares for her leprous mother-in-law while seeking a divorce. With nowhere else to turn, she builds...

Nicu, a young Roma man living in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of London, discovers the body of a fellow migrant and takes his jar of cash....

1622: Following the death of a heavily pregnant noblewoman, the young outsider Badria is accused of witchcraft. Before a church tribunal, she fights...

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...

A young drag queen from Andalusia exposes the difficulties of adding aspects of her homeland culture to her artistic expression.

The millennia-old myth and tradition of St. Lucy's fire told through the eyes of teenagers on the shores of the Ionian Sea.

A pagan village, founded on the bones of both innocent and foul, is deeply rooted within the heart of an ancient Eden. When a balance of flesh and...

Nie Xiaoqian was betrayed and died with hatred. She turned into a ghost after death and was imprisoned in Lanruo Temple. Ning Sheng went to Capital...

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the...

Seven years prior to the breach of the mystical Saranjana portal, a remote stilt village built upon the treacherous swamps of interior Kalimantan...

An Albanian girl born with ‘the gift’ embarks on a dangerous quest to rescue her lover from a dark sorceress.