Folklore Movies

Documentary short showing folk singing and step dancing traditions in a Suffolk pub.

A big day in the Scottish Borders is captured with astonishing clarity in this remarkable film commissioned by the local cinema.

In the summer of 1961, a group of young Italian anthropologists made a clandestine journey through Spain, in order to record popular songs that...

Ukonvaaja - The Hammer of Ukko - is a documentary film that focuses on ancient Finnish folklore and mythology.

Part of the Keluang Man Cinematic Universe.

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

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

Leading Nepalese film scholar and Tokyo University of Information Sciences professor Ito Toshiaki serves as the first Japanese director and...

The visual style of the film is inspired by ancient tribal symbols, which constantly morph into each other. They represent life in a womb-like frame.

National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.

Record 51. Horehronie Days of Singing and Dancing in Heľpa.

A short stay in a Cornish Town.

A lumberjack in search of wood ventures deep into the forest until he discovers an abandoned community of lumberjacks. Inside one of the houses, he...

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

Aboard their cart, Dr. Rhubarb and assistant Cough travel from house to house to cure absurd diseases with their innovative remedies. Loosely...

Hidden deep in the remote Norwegian woods, a solitary woman lives in a small cabin, unaware that a mythical creature from her mother’s...

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