Fable for a new age / 1984

Four women in the throes of frustrated sexual desire. Not making fun of them but rather sending up the absurdities of passion and the ways in which it undermines our dignity. One woman, given to heady, long-winded monologues and carrying on like a silent screen vamp, envisions herself as a kind of Eve in the Garden of Eden about to seduce her Adam--but instead of being overcome by the fabled scents of Araby (or such) she is assaulted by the odor of "old socks, gasoline and aftershave."

Le Pays des âmes (a jazz fable) / 2011

In today's Montreal, the devil, through discreet manners of seduction, takes liberty upon death. A brave trumpet player in love with a damned soul must fight him.

A Mexican Fable: Murder and the Feather Boa / 1996

La Vanessa was the organiser of the first gay rights march in Chiapas State, Mexico. Four years after her murder in 1992, this study of mexican transvestite culture documents a period of fear marked by 29 brutal murders. It originally aired in '96 as part of Channel 4's Latino Nights line-up ("a season of programmes from and about Latin America"), and--aside from showing up at a few niche trans-festivals here and there--seems to have disappeared altogether after that.

Shell Fables ~ a Curious Cabinet of Beings & Becoming / 2022

Curious things survived decades of filmmaker Salma Ahmad Caller’s English mother and Egyptian father’s lives - juxtaposing things that seem to belong to ‘opposing’ cultures creates strangeness and blurs boundaries. These Things are also witnesses to strange and forbidden encounters across divides created by ideologies, imagined and constructed difference, power and desire. Each thing acting within the cabinet is a disruptive fragment that can never really be pinned down or catalogued. Any notion of nationality, identity or fixity is constantly disturbed, any attempts to curate wholeness or completeness fails.

Canada Vignettes: Onions and Garlic: A Hebrew Fable / 1978

This animated short tells a humourous Hebrew folk tale about a man's venture to introduce onions to a far away kingdom and a disreputable man's attempt to exploit that.

THE FABLE / 20197.01 voti

Fable è un leggendario sicario della yakuza uguale a nessuno, ma il suo capo ordina a lui e al suo sensuale socio di nascondersi e imparare a vivere una 'vita normale' a Osaka.

The Hillmen: A Soccer Fable / 1996

With Greek and Turkish communities moving out of the area, the Clifton Hill Soccer Club must recruit from a newer wave of Asian immigrants or face extinction.

The Amateur Fire Brigade: A Fable of the New Deal / 1935

In Eshbaugh’s ‘political’ animated cartoon world, the Democratic platform is destroyed by its own swallowing of the NRA (National Recovery Act), sending the Donkey representing the party into a dizzying disastrous bucking fury (thanks to a ‘liberal’ added dose of Russian vodka).

The North Wind and the Sun: A Fable by Aesop / 1972

An engaging illustration, by animation artist Rhoda Leyer, of the fable in which the warm sun proves to the cold wind that persuasion is better than force when it comes to making a man take off his coat.

The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry / 1915

Having declared himself in on a jolly college dinner, Mr. Dubley, member of the class of '88, counted on having a Hot Old Time. Now at a College Dinner the main idea is to get a flying start. It was to be a Dry dinner, so most of the sons of Bohunkus were doing what a Camel does just before crossing a Desert. At 8:15 the Crowd was herded into the banquet hall. Dr. Dubley found himself marooned between two pious elders. The Oysters had been warming up since 6:30. Fortunately, the soup was not warm enough to scald the thumb of a willing longshoreman who had been brought in as an extra waiter.

The Fable 'Proving That Spongers are Found in a Drug Store' / 1914

Once there was a good-natured old Scout who opened a drug store on the corner with the intention of making money enough to buy bird seed once in a while. The first Gink who blew in wanted to know the correct time, and not a cent's worth did he buy. The next was one of those hurry-up guys who wanted a city directory and wanted to know if Murphy was spelled with an "F." Shortly after Estelle came in and wanted to wait for Laura. She was dying for a drink of plain water, she couldn't drink soda water because the gas got up her nose. Finally, when Laura came she bought a postage stamp, and not having any pennies, said she'd be in later to pay for it.

The Fable / 20246.01 voti

Addestrato fin dall'infanzia come spietato assassino, a un sicario della mafia viene ordinato di diventare un normale cittadino rispettoso della legge.

The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of a TankTown Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent / 1916

A silent short film of 1916 directed by Richard Foster Baker. The subject is taken from a story by George Ade .

A Fable / 20206.01 voti

In "Spaces #2", 7 internationally acclaimed directors shot, after commissioning by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, a short film at home, making their own timely comment on the new reality that we live in. The project is inspired by the book "Species of Spaces" by the French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist, Georges Perec and the days of quarantine. The idea is to create a film at home, using the environment, the people or the animals in that space. The only outdoor areas that may be used are outdoor living spaces, such as the terrace, the garden, the balcony and the stairwell. "A Fable" is Radu Jude's submission.

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure / 1916

The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure is a 1916 American short comedy silent film pertaining to baseball.

Fable of a Blood-Drained Girl / 2013

Gizella turns 15 today; she's becoming a woman. Her strict and bourgeois parents have organized a fancy dinner-party to celebrate with their closest friends. At the end of the event, Gizella will have to give a speech, but everything gets complicated when she discovers that a little plant has begun to grow in her mouth. Gizella needs to hide her secret to save her parents from the shame, though this means going against her own nature.

Who Will Tell A Fable? / 1982

American Fable / 20177.02 voti

Negli anni Ottanta, nel bel mezzo della crisi agricola del Midwest, l'undicenne Kitty vive in un mondo oscuro e talvolta magico. Quando scopre che l'amato padre nasconde un uomo ricco nel silo di famiglia al fine di salvare la loro fattoria in difficoltà, Kitty stringe in segreto amicizia con il prigioniero. Si ritroverà costretta a dover scegliere tra l'impulso a salvargli la vita e il bisogno di proteggere la sua famiglia dalle conseguenze del caso.

Astro: An Urban Fable in a Magical Rio de Janeiro / 2012

Le favole di Esopo / 1983

Le favole di Esopo (まんがイソップ物語 Manga Aesop monogatari?, lett. "Le storie di Esopo a fumetti") è un anime prodotto nel 1983 dalla Nippon Animation in 52 episodi ispirato alle favole di Esopo.