A Folk Troupe / 2013

Eleven members of a traditional theatre troupe perform daily and live out their lives in a small playhouse in the Sichuan region of China. Their three-hour show combines various forms, from classical Chinese opera to acrobatics, and is adored by the locals. Their star actress Dandan has performed in the troupe with her mother since she was little, sharing a living space with a group of performers who share no absence of fights. Though she worries about her future, she continues to earnestly perform the heroine for her elderly audience.

The Folkloristas / 2018

An academic and a private detective investigate mysteries with supernatural roots in the dark side of Mexican folklore.

Folk! / 2010

Featuring the legendary ballerina and choreographer Roma Pryma Bohachevsky and the Syzokryli Dance Ensemble of New York, the Virsky National Dance Company of Ukraine, the Kashtan School of Ukrainian Dance in Cleveland and The Voloshky Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia, "Folk!", dubbed the greatest film about Ukrainian folk dancing ever, explores the unique underground and acrobatic world of Ukrainian folk dancing through the eyes of narrator/filmmaker Roxy Toporowych. This documentary is the first film to be a joyful embracement of Ukrainian culture and dance in North America today as well as a musical feature that is also extremely relevant to anyone trying to balance ties to one's heritage and culture.

Latvian Folklore / 1983

Documentary about the ancient rites still practiced in rural Latvia.

Folk Song / 2021

The Ancient Folk-Tale of Ólafur Liljurós / 1977

Drama shot. Based on the authors' personal reflections on the ancient folk-tale of Ólafur Liljurós.

The Scary Folklore: Omote no Sho / 2007

Ayane, who has transferred to Seiran Girls' Academy, is troubled by her strange auditory hallucinations. Before long, she had a series of unnatural deaths and disappearances around her...

Ordinary Folk Life in Vienna / 1911

Wiener Kunstfilm, the first major Austrian film production company, was founded in 1910 by the photographer Anton (Gustav) Kolm, his wife Luise Kolm-Veltée, and the cameraman Jacob Fleck to counter France’s domination of the Austro-Hungarian cinema market. This emblematic short film is an August Sander-like portrait of “ordinary folk life in Vienna” – radically different from the one depicted nearly a century later in Ulrich Seidl’s Good News.

Triumph of Ukrainian Folk Ballet / 1954

A documentary film"The Triumph of Ukrainian Dance" (1954) Avramenko worked on for 25 years received great international acclaim after being shown in cinemas across the US and Europe. Although largely an American production, the film documents Vasyl Avramenko's impact on the development of Ukrainian dance in such Canadian cities as Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton for over a quarter of a century.

Country Folk / 1986

Directed by Bingliu Hu.

Folklore and life / 2020

Folklore is a metaphorical image of a person's existence. Erotic part of life is no exception. Our ancestors had traditions with erotic subtext for every holiday, closely tied to the notion of fertility.

Folk Song / 2021

Last days of poverty eradication in China. Zhao Lin, deputy secretary of the township party committee, took the initiative to invite Ying to work as the first secretary of the village. At the same time, Jiji Hebin came to Huopu Village to serve as the first secretary. They went from being happy enemies to helping each other, and eventually both villages completed the task of poverty eradication as scheduled

Engel Lund (1900-1996) Singer of World Folk Songs / 1998

A film about the mezzo-soprano Engel Lund.

A Folk Song of the Mill / 1931

A young man convicted for his views ends up in prison for a long 40 years. When he returned from prison to his hometown, his ex-girlfriend became an old woman with gray hair.

Near the Sources of Folk Art. Film sketches about Hutsul folk craftsmens / 1971

Yulian Dorosh's film "Near the Sources of Folk Art" was shot in Kosiv region between 1963 and 1971. The film, done mainly on black-and-white, but with color inserts, tells out the masters of folk crafts of the Hutsul region. The film is dedicated "To the memory of Lev Dolynskyi and Danylo Fihol - my childhood friends." In the credits of the film it is clearly indicated that the author of the film is Yulian Dorosh and the film was shot in Kosiv region and Lviv in 1965-1971. There is no sound track on film stock. Documentary was rediscovered in March 2020. Since no later films of Yulian Dorosh have been found, there is every reason to believe that this film was the last in his cinematic career.

Folk Legends: The Water Monkeys / 2022

Poor Folk. Kabakovs / 2018

In Poor Folk, Ilya Kabakov talks about his sources and influences, including the tragic life of his mother, which had a profound effect on his views and artistic career. Together with his wife and collaborator Emilia he discusses Soviet underground art, the birth of Moscow Conceptualism, the couple’s emigration to the USA, and international acclaim after thirty years of almost no exhibitions (Kabakov did not show his work at state-sanctioned exhibitions in the Soviet Union): today the duo’s works are in the world’s leading museums, including MoMA, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Folk Song on the Plain / 2002

A folk song echoed on the Shandong Plain. This is the song of Luo Xiaojia, a Yunnan Yi girl who was trafficked to the Shandong Plain at the age of 17, and now she has lived in rural Shandong for seven years. After coming to Shandong, she was forced to marry a young farmer and received a marriage certificate. The film documents her family life in the unfamiliar Shandong countryside, her thoughts about her hometown and her views on destiny. Luo Xiaojia's tenth year in Shandong Province, she finally won the right to go home. After a journey of 4,000 kilometers, she returned to her hometown of Yunnan and saw her mother who she missed day and night. But she was caught in a contradiction. Finally, she asked her mother to sing a lot of folk songs for her, and she returned to Shandong with those sad folk songs.

Folk Songs Forever / 2011

A guy who is into ska music, finds himself fascinated by Thai traditional music after meeting a great Thai traditional music songwriter and getting involved in a Thai traditional music rivalry.

The Scary Folklore: Ura no Sho / 2007

Five years have passed since 12 members of the choir were brutally murdered in the music room of Seiran Jogakuin, a prestigious school in the suburbs of Tokyo. A TV news crew visits the scene to clarify the rumor that children's songs can be heard from coming from the closed school. Accompanied by Kyoko, an acoustic analyst, the team begins their own investigation into the incident, but one after another, strange things begin to happen to the staff...