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...

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all...

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...

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

The smallest son of the king has to find a bride for himself in the forest. But he finds only a kitty cat.

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

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...

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

Each one of the poor man’s four sons learns a craft. The dragon kidnaps the princess. The four young men bring the princess back to the king...

The son of a poor man allows their three piglets to graze at the foot of the King's garden. The princess likes the piglets. The boy refuses to accept...

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...

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...

The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted...

In the old days it was all murder and mayhem around Llanymawddwy as this renactment of an old legend shows but, never fear, peace now reigns.