Folklore

An imaginative and somewhat disturbed young girl fantasizes about evil creatures and other oddities to mask her insecurities while growing up in rural Australia.

Life changes dramatically for a Czech housemaid when the family coachman gives her three magical hazelnuts.

An adaptation of the classic tale of a wealthy aristocrat with a blue beard.

Klara and Viktoria are sisters. Their father dies, leaving most of his property to Klara. When Klara becomes involved with a man that her sister loves, Viktoria begins to plot her murder.

A poor student must rescue an ailing princess from the castle of an evil magician, who's preparing a rejuvenating elixir from the stolen hearts of nine children.

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise and flee the kingdom so she won't have to marry the king who happens to be her father.

A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.

The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.

After her parents are killed in a plane crash over the Grand Canyon, Melanie, a teenager girl and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to live with their uncle, Philip. There, she meets his mute wife Margaret, who is mistreated by and terrified of her husband and only converses through notes. She also meets Margaret's younger brothers Francie, a fiddler, and the rakish Finn. Her uncle is a toy maker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.

A teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend, Buttercup the doll, from the denizens of the Land of Evil.

An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie.

Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.

Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.

The younger brother from the common people intends to fight for a salvation of the exiled princess, suffering from a dark magic curse.

A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.

A twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

A handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.

From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.

Lucía remembers the summer when she fell in love with Luis and her fear of the dark.

Between the walls of a room, which is also a forest, lives little Luis. He tells us about his life in that forest and an encounter with Lucia. But love and happiness don't always endure, even for specters

In a room there is a box. In the box there is a forest. In the forest there is a lost child. Living beings made of paper appear and vanish in "Der Kleinere Raum".

Jaime Guzmán, the main ideologist of the Pinochet dictatorship and author of the Chilean Constitution, sneaks into the dream of a witch. She confronts her different personifications and tries to keep her visitor away using witchcraft. She curses, sings, dances and is reintroduced in alternative versions of herself.

Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.