Storytelling Movies

Peter brings his new girlfriend Anja up to C. von Ficker's (i.e. Fucker's) flat, but their tryst is repeatedly disturbed by various events in the...

A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A...

As the second work of young director Ran Yinxiao, "May the Rivers and Seas Flow Upward" is set in Chongqing and tells a different kind of family...

An experimental, mixed-media retelling of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Of course, when a story this old is told countless times throughout the...

A 9-year-old boy in a remote village in India begins a lifelong love affair with cinema when he bribes his way into a rundown movie palace and spends...

David Robert Pollock is missing, loved ones have disappeared, and out of desperation the crew of The David Robert Pollock Show turn to the dark arts....

Filmmaker Jamal Ademola documents Akua Shabaka and her mother, Rebecca Henry, the creative minds behind the acclaimed fashion label House of Aama, as...

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.

A city boy, Shinji, is sent to live in the countryside to escape the Tokyo bombings, where he experiences the complexities of rural school life,...

A small fish with a big imagination gets lost in the deep wide ocean, until he is saved by his own storytelling.

In 2018 Joz Norris had a breakdown that made him afraid to leave his own flat. In 2019 he was evicted from that flat and had to say goodbye to the...

Renowned horror actor Vincent Price narrates four tales of terror by renowned horror author Edgar Allen Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The...

After a rock is thrown through a window, two families become intertwined in a dispute after an incident following an unsuccessful marriage. The...

Five years after "Oluf" was laid to rest, Arthur Arntzen is back with perhaps one of the most beloved Norwegian humor characters of all time. He...

On a train journey, Saki meets Mrs De Ropp, an oppressive aunt and guardian to an unruly brood. Inspired by the meeting, he imagines a tale of...

An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.

Documentary charting the contribution to Hollywood movies made by writer Joseph Campbell, whose ideas about mythic structure helped shape Star Wars.

In India, in the region of Gujarat, a man whose face is never shown travels through the large city of Vadodara by night and distributes a mysterious...

Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film...