Folktale Movies

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him.