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Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child and attempts to do away with him. But those blessed with luck cannot b
A white lion comes to the aid of a girl being held under the cruel care of a troll.
The film presents Toer’s dramatic life, his work and the historical background in Indonesia through colony rule and dictatorship.
A look at the life of esteemed Danish writer Karen Blixen.
A loving but unpredictable taxi driver who is desperate to regain access to his children is faced with a decision that will change his life forever
Vicki is telling one of her stories.
The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.
Ahmad Natche's last, unfinished film premiered posthumously at Doclisboa. In "The Storyteller," we witness a rehearsal for a new play at the El Hakawati theater in Jerusalem. Ahmad Natche focuses on those watching and th
The inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus flee from the wicked King Minos with the aid of Daedalus's man-made wings, but will Icarus heed his father's advice?
The hero Perseus faces the Gorgon, Medusa.
The musician Orpheus descends to Hades to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.
The Storyteller recounts the time he was caught making a fool of the royal cook and, as punishment meted out by the King, must tell one story a day for a year. All goes well until the very last day when he suffers from s
Based on the experience of Palestinian storyteller Denise Asaad in preserving the oral Palestinian folktale as a form of preserving the identity of the Palestinian people who were dispersed inside and outside Palestine,
Theseus, with help from a beautiful princess, versus the savage Minotaur, half-man half-bull.
A young and education deprived Syrian woman embarks on a new read aloud project to empower teenage girls to build a future of opportunities she never had. Despite her complex living situation as a refugee in the Zaatari
Kasha Sequoia Slavner, aka The Sunrise Storyteller, is an 18-year old filmmaker, photographer, entrepreneur, young global leader and peace advocate. As a concerned high school student, disillusioned and outraged by the n
A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a baby who resembles a hedgehog, much to the father's dismay and the scor
The movie narrates a simple but the most indispensable message of life --- KARMA --- One should always only focus on his work/karma that he is destined to do - Hard work and perseverance are the keys to Success whereas p
An unemployed young man, searching for the driver who crashed into his motorcycle, gets caught up in a series of incredible adventures.
Birago Diop appears as the pioneer of African letters. He knew the long journey of poets of blackness from the 30s. But, while young writers Antillean and African chose poetry to express the search for their identity, Bi