Folklore Movies

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...

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

An epic action-fantasy drama rooted in the soul of Cagayan, Philippines. Hawil, a warrior consumed by guilt after killing his own brother, embarks...

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...

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

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

Small-town criminal Jos (55) has, to his great frustration, been completely sidelined. His daughter disrespects him, his wife doesn't trust him, and...

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...

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

Nicu, a young Roma man living in a makeshift camp on the outskirts of London, discovers the body of a fellow migrant and takes his jar of cash....

Juju Stories tackles juju in contemporary Lagos through three stories. In Love Potion, by Omonua, an unmarried woman agrees to use juju to find...

In the heart of the Caribbean, a mother and daughter confront a malevolent curse erasing identities of all the island's women, propelling them on a...

A penniless, fast-thinking musician buys a lottery ticket which he glues to his back door, in hopes of eventually retrieving his instrument from his...

In the year 1622, the young Badria is held responsible for the death of the princess after the birth of the royal child and accused of witchcraft....

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...

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

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

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

Seven years before the Saranjana gate opened. In a village on water and swamps, in the interior of Kalimantan. The secret of the black magic "Kuyang"...