Folklore Movies

A trip through the diversity of black and native Peruvian music. Character-driven film, one where the characters are integral to the nation itself....

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...

As Sania helps her Aunt Sybil prepare traditional Trinidadian bread, she listens to tales of forest protectors and mischievous spirits from Caribbean...

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

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

Sania, a first-generation Trinidadian American, is haunted by mischievous Douens and must confront the dark secrets and generational trauma buried...

In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a...

Stop-motion animated film inspired by true events of 1672 which took place in Croatian region of Istria. The film tells a story of nine villagers who...

Tâm is a young delivery worker whose heart condition from birth leads him into a strange folk ritual called 'lying in a coffin' – a...

After surviving a severe accident with lingering amnesia, a micro-painting artist begins to suspect that the woman who visits claiming to be his...

Martirio, the mourner, falls in love with Sagrario, the bullfighter, when she sees her fighting the only bull of their little town. In order to get...

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone...

A desperate couple in rural Iceland confronts a centuries-old curse that forces them to choose between love and survival.

An academic and a private detective investigate mysteries with supernatural roots in the dark side of Mexican folklore.

Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical creatures live alongside humans. Akiko is a...

The Mavka, a mystical and dangerous forest nymph, falls in love with the biologist Lukyan instead of destroying him in the mysterious forest lake,...

Minik and Hans are best friends in their early twenties in Greenland. Minik being down and Hans trying to cheer him up they look for an some...

Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful...

Stephen Fry embarks on a journey to discover the stories behind some of the world's most fantastic beasts that have inspired myths and legends in...

Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours...