Folklore Movies

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 folkloric group "Nzale," founded in 1979 in Bangui, practices a traditional dance called "M'baka M'Bokou," which means "strength" and is a symbol...

Children parade through the streets of Hinton St George in Somerset on the last Thursday of October. Children have hollowed out pumpkins or...

There is a local tale in Burma about the Lady in Yellow, the bringer of death. She is well known by the name 'Ma Phei Wah'. The story unfolds after a...

This retro documentary, based on the book by world-renowned paranormal expert and author Gaynor Baldwin, explores the haunted history of the Isle of...

A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.

Ghost Island follows a team of paranormal investigators to a desolate island off the coast of Nova Scotia. Amid eerie ruins and whispered legends,...

An ethnographic documentary following the Folia de Reis party that is celebrated every year at Morro de Santa Marta on Rio de Janeiro.

Fear and superstition take hold of a young family during a time of great hunger in 1879 Ireland.

Five friends arrive at a solitary Airbnb for a quiet getaway. But when strange occurrences disrupt their boredom, they begin to suspect an unseen...

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

A group of teenagers go out to a den in the woods for a night of drinking, unaware that their behaviour touches on issues of ritual, folklore,...

Isolated and longing for a friend, Young Anneka meets a floating light that takes her to a wide endless wheatfield to play but time flies by and she...