Movies: Folklore

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She sang in the Rekova Church Choir in 1956, and has also been a member of the Rekava Ethnographic Ense...

Short film by filmmaker Eddie O’Keefe about the American Folklore....

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

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In a remote mountainous village elderly people no longer deemed productive are stoned to death....

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia....

A documentary filmed in the mountainous region of Agrafa, Eurytania, in Greece....

A West African folk tale about a spider who is presented with a dilemma when each of his six sons saves his life and he must determine which one he should reward....

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more ex...

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Slovenian national costume borrowed from the garbs of the German Alpine region, it has maintained the spec...

Don Melcho peddles his political influence in his town and take advantage of his impoverished neighbors. An ambiguous character who may or may not expand his power....

Six part TV series where Karpo Godina filmed common folk, showing the world of people who have filled their lives with hobbies and skills of their own making. It features gold panners on the river Pek, a shepherdess who plays music on a leaf, a footb...

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An adaptation of a fairy tale by Moldovan writer Emilian Bukov....

Whilst house-sitting in a secluded home in Scotland, Aarya, an expressionist painter, is gifted a red scarf sent by her aunt from Pakistan, and becomes haunted by a Churail; a demonic and malevolent South-Asian Witch....

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