Folklore Movies

Karel Plicka was also cinematographer of this short movie. Editor in charge was Alexander Hackenschmied. There is an extraordinary emotional charge, e...

When the neglected and unloved brother Mavungu finally leaves home, he finds a tree blocking the river and frees the people imprisoned within the tree...

Dark powers roam free, a woman dreams of a poppy field and her funeral.

Documentary about the ethnographic festivities in Strážnice in the summer of 1949.

Godina drove to the north of Serbia, Yugoslavia's Vojvodina province, and shot several folk singers and their families, introducing a wealth of Yugosl...

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s ceremony, w...

Chan Kwai-sheung visits the brothel with So Tung-bo while his wife, Lau Yuk-ngo, is sleeping. As this is the first time Sheung did this, Ngo wants him...

A woman is forced to continue working while one of her colleagues lies unconscious on the floor due to the long, hot work days. This fact causes insom...

No one could spin a yarn to make a sale like Ray Lum. Twenty years after their initial meeting, Bill Ferris returned home to Mississippi in the early...

The members of the Ayrudzi troupe travel across various villages of Armenia on horseback and put on folk song and dance concerts and shadow theatre pe...

A doctor arrives in a remote village where the superstitious villagers all believe a string of grisly deaths is being caused by a Phi Pop ghost, a spi...