Folklore Movies

Anna "Buksa" Scemelinska (1925 - 2011) was a Latvian folksinger. She learned her song repertoire and singing style from her parents and villagers. She...

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

Karol Plicka was an important musician and composer. He recorded folk songs immediately after hearing them in musical notation to preserve them for fu...

Individual political policies and regimes used and abused the national costume of Slovenia. Despite the fact that the individual details of the Sloven...

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

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

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

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