The Legend of La Llorona

This legend from West Java is told thus: In heaven, among the gods, Minda's teacher, who later became Lutung Kasarung, was penned by his own mother, Sunan Ambu, for wanting to be a human being and a wife as beautiful as her mother. So he turned into a langur. He will turn into a human again when he later meets a woman who loves him.

The Gingerbread House

A working man went to the forest garden to plant a turnip, where he met a very lazy and, as it later turned out, foolish bear. The man managed to outwit the beast twice without giving him a single gram of the crop.

After many years, with help of Thetis and negotiations between Zeus and Hades, an aged Achilles is released from the Underworld into a modern world.

After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial forces, the two must undergo a series of perilous trials that will test their bond, challenge their identities, and decide the fate of both mortals and immortals.

Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.

The blood-soaked tale of a Norse warrior's battle against the great and murderous troll, Grendel. Heads will roll. Out of allegiance to the King Hrothgar, the much respected Lord of the Danes, Beowulf leads a troop of warriors across the sea to rid a village of the marauding monster.

A young hero defeats a dragon to find acceptance to the court of burgundy.

The Korean legend of Ungnyeo, a bear reborn as a woman, becomes a percussive and mesmerizing riff on the themes of transformation and quarantine. Produced as part of the 13th edition of the NFB’s Hothouse apprenticeship.

In the Crimea, on the shore of the Black Sea lives a girl nicknamed Dubravka. The girl plays soccer, swims in the sea, runs with boys in a race and often becomes a participant of any adventure. But the time comes - and Dubravka begins to grow up. She is as if in a “suspended” state: she is no longer interested in playing with boys, and older boys and girls do not pay much attention to her or perceive her as a child. In the house Dubravka settles vacationer Valentina Grigorievna. The girl likes her so much that Dubravka even “fell in love” with her. Dubravka's neighbor, the lonely father Peter Petrovich, and Valentina sympathize with each other, and Dubravka becomes very jealous of her. The girl does not know where to go from the contradictions simmering in her.

Pentos a Iola

Jankove hračky

A short story based on the novel by Mykolas Sluckis.

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

A murderous Bigfoot attacks campers and hunters without warning, leaving a small, snowy county stained with blood. The local sheriff, Mac Asheton, battles PTSD and alcoholism as he tries to stop the terrifying creature. A horrifying memory from long ago has haunted the sheriff, now he must overcome his fears to protect the secluded county. What was the event that haunts him, and could this make him just as dangerous as the rampaging Bigfoot?

This is a story about the origin of hostility between a cat and a dog. Based on the ballad of Hovhannes Tumanyan.

Aucassin a Nicoletta

O kuruckej vojně

About adventures of two schoolboys dreaming to find treasures.

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