Movies: Fable

A young inexperienced man rekindles his emotional and intimate relationship with his only love–his charming, and talking, childhood teddy bear....

This short film shows an encounter, through a series of games, between a street child from the shantytowns and a child of a rich family, stationed at his window. The film has no dialogue and the action moves through the attempts at one-upmanship evid...

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum....

The heiress of a gem mage travels to St. Petersburg to fulfill her father's dream and her destiny....

A lonely boy encounters a mysterious wizard and is given a seed that could grow into something magical....

An estranged couple’s vacation leaves Kyle, a leg-injured housesitter, in a sinister predicament. Military presence, eerie calls, and the fate of an ex girlfriend cast a chilling scenario that will remain with him as long as he lives....

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City....

A dark re-telling of the classic fable 'Little Red Riding Hood' set in the Canadian prairies during the Great Depression....

Twisting in from Chile, Guillermo Ribbeck’s phenomenal EMPTY JARS is a stylishly directed dark fantasy set in a decaying student residence where a woman (Ana Burgos, THE SEA) frees a ghost from a jar and works to find it a suitable human vessel to po...

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Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire. One day there passes the miserable hut in which these three strange people live, a wealthy banker, named William Corday,...

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After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming...

An animated fable about the UK housing crisis....

Chinese puppet fable....

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An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal retelling of the Orpheus tale suffused with Ifergan's striking paintings, sculpture and conceptual photography....

A mother flees her home with her infant child, only to run into her brother in the process....

Wealthy but alone, a king spends his days obsessively polishing shiny objects throughout his opulent castle. After a visit from a puckish forest wizard, the king earns a blessing – or curse – that turns anything he touches to gold....

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