Ayapaneco. El viento(2015)

Tales of Magic: Volume 2(en)

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

Tales of Magic: Volume 3(en)

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

Kirikou and the Sorceress(fr)

Drawn from elements of West African folk tales, it depicts how a newborn boy, Kirikou, saves his village from the evil witch Karaba.

Toe(en)

A stop-motion gothic folktale. A starving young boy eats a human toe that he finds in the ground. Later that night, something comes to his bedroom wanting it back.

Tales of Magic: Volume 1(en)

A collection of stories compiled from the English dub of the Madhouse anime series Manga Fairy Tales of the World.

Nu Wa Patches Up Sky(zh)

Short animated version of the Chinese folktale, Nüwa Mends the Heavens

Hungarian Folk Tales: The Pussycat Princess(hu)

The smallest son of the king has to find a bride for himself in the forest. But he finds only a kitty cat.

Magyar népmesék 1. Kacor Király(hu)

The Ashlad and the Hungry Troll(no)

An exuberant story about Askeladden, the hero of Norwegian traditional fairy tales, outwitting the good-natured troll.

How Death Came to Earth(en)

How Death Came to Earth is a 14 minute cutout animation film by Ishu Patel produced in 1971 by the National Film Board of Canada. The film deals with an Indian myth of creation, and is notable for its trippy visual style.

Kris The Cat(en)

The Queen's cat goes on an adventure in the countryside where he discovers that love, in its many forms, surrounds him.

The Tale of Tsar Saltan(ru)

Tale - this is what is everyone from childhood. Give yourself a chance to once again return to the magical world created by Alexander Pushkin. Adventures brave Tsarevich Guidon, beautiful Swan-Tsar Saltan reminded of that love, loyalty and the spirit always wins!

The Magic Ballad(ja)

The 25 minute film tells the tale of an ailing elderly woman named Itako who encounters a fox named Okon. The story opens with Itako lying bedridden, as she has for a long time. Okon enters her home and Itako tells the fox that he is welcome to take anything that he wants, for she has no use for anything anymore. Okon is delighted and in order to return the favour (the act of ongaeshi), Okon performs a magic jyōruri (a ballad with shamisen accompaniment) that heals Itako so that she is fit enough to walk again. Everyone is surprised by Itako's sudden recovery. She then hears of a hunter who has been badly injured and is near death. Itako hides Okon in the back of her shirt and has the fox sing the song while she plays shamisen in order to heal the man. This act of kindness is repeated for others until Itako's good fortune leads some to be suspicious of her.

The Town that Cried Wolf(en)

A short film that asks "What if, after the boy cried 'wolf', the rest of the town started doing it too?"

A Story-A Story(en)

Ananse the Spider Man climbs up to the sky to buy stories from the Sky God in this folktale from Africa.

Vasilisa the Beautiful(ru)

Young prince meets a talking frog who turns out to be a beautiful but cursed princess. To remove the curse, he must go on a quest to find and outsmart the forest witch Baba Yaga.

Dreams into Drawing(ja)

The painter Kuwagata Keisai lived over 200 years ago. He created 'Ways to Sketch', a series of picture books illustrating humans and animals, all richly expressed. One day he was sketching out a carp, just at that moment he slept and he became a carp in dream. A carp was enjoy to swimming, but a fisherman caught that carp...

Magyar népmesék 2. A Csillagszemű Juhász(hu)

Lacandón. El origen de los aluxes(en)

Nights at the jungles are filled with sounds, songs and laughs from the aluxes, some creatures that escaped from heaven. They can't be exposed at light, so as soon as the sun hides, they insist on building pyramids trying to get closer to where they came from.

Oluteco. The Dance of la Malinche(en)

Sold by her step brothers, Malintzin serves as a translator for an spanish merchant. When visiting Tenochtitlan she is rescued by Moctezuma. The merchant, angry, charges the aztecs of robbery with Hernan Cortes, who invades the city under that excuse.