Folk Songs Singing / 2011

Liu Xiaoyang is fond of music. In order to help Xiaoyang enter a music school, her father, who is serving in the police station, finds Feng Gang as a tutor. Xiaoyang and Feng Gang gradually cultivate feelings in the process of learning. A few years later, Xiaoyang returns to her hometown after graduation. Zhang Xuefeng and Xiaoyang grow up together. And now their parents want them to be together. But Xiaoyang rejects.

The Tale of the Round and the Long Wee Folk / 1993

The tale of two people living across a river who decided to have a senseless fight. Based on the poem by Roman Sef.

Mask: Field Research on a Folk Performance / 2000

Since the time of the Qing Dynasty, villagers of Xiaotun have performed a folk opera in which all the actors wear masks. Known as the “Guansuo Opera”, its performances were suspended during the Cultural Revolution, and its script was burned. In 1980, through the approval of the local government, it started to perform again. “Mask” records the various antagonisms and attitudes amongst villagers, performers, village and county officials, local cultural researchers and filmmakers. More significantly, it reveals the cultural confrontation between “the observed” in the village and the filmmaking crew.

Imaginary Folklorist / 2018

Imaginary Folklorist shows us a face never before known of the Dominican musician and composer, Fellé Vega, transporting us through his life and musical style.

The Folk Songs of Happiness / 2019

Folklore: Pob / 2018

A journalist meets with Pob, a Thai ghost, who confesses to a murder. Finally finding an outlet for complaint, Pob explains how the murder happened and requests for his story to be published. However, the journalist declines and the two make a deal of a lifetime.

Fómeque Folklore Festival / 1969

Film of a folk festival in Colombia, featuring indigenous music, dance, crafts, and other cultural activities.