Fable
see all genres ›Mythologies ancient and freshly imagined drive these often gorgeous tales that use fantasy (not to mention the occasional talking animal) to comment on the human condition.
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Travellers and Magicians
Khyentse Norbu’s follow-up to his audience favorite THE CUP is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny kingdom of Bhutan. One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Khyentse (aka Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche) weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to...Watch Movie
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The Point
Directed and animated by Academy Award®-winner Fred Wolf, with story and songs written by Grammy Award®-winner Harry Nilsson, narrated by Ringo Starr and including many colorful characters voiced by a bevy of talented actors, THE POINT is an enchanting fable for the whole family to enjoy! Years...Watch Movie
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Stille Nacht II
A three minute animated choreography with an ethereal pop soundtrack by the remarkable band His Name Is Alive. With a typically eccentric cast of a ragged doll, a white rabbit and a manic ping-pong ball, Stephen and Timothy Quay construct a hypnotic, beguiling and vaguely menacing ballet,...Watch Movie
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Wanderers of the Desert
A traveling writer and teller of fables, Nacer Khemir here applies his age-old skills to a narrative feature film, the first in his highly-regarded "Desert Trilogy" that includes THE DOVE'S LOST NECKLACE and BAB'AZIZ. Khemir creates an exotic world with WANDERERS OF THE DESERT...Watch Movie
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Bab'Aziz
A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (the third in the "Desert Trilogy") begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab'Aziz and his spirited granddaughter, Ishtar. Together they wander the desert in search of a great reunion of dervishes that...Watch Movie
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The Black Balloon
While trying to move forty kids six blocks in New York City alone, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. In that bouquet, a lone black balloon scurries free. It dies and comes back to life, returning to the city cruising for a companion. On the...Watch Movie
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Green Snake
Demons have never looked better than in this delirious fantasy film directed by Tsui Hark. The story of two snake demons (Maggie Cheung and Joey Wang) and their love/hate relationships with mortal men is a dazzling visual feast, filled with stunning plateaus, vivid costumes and sets and...Watch Movie
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS, a wildly comic fable, stars the beloved stone faced clown Toto as an Italian everyman, and Ninetto Davoli as his good-natured but empty headed son. Pasolini uses a comic crow, which philosophizes amusingly and pointedly about the passing scene as a...Watch Movie
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The Talking Eggs
When a young girl named Selina befriends a mystical elderly woman, magical things happen, not the least of which is the surprise of three talking eggs. But when her selfish younger brother gets involved, he's in for some surprises too, of a very different kind! Based on a...Watch Movie
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The Dove's Lost Necklace
This second feature in Nacer Khemir's "Desert Trilogy" is a visually ravishing folktale reminiscent of THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS. The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in...Watch Movie
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A Brief History of Paradise as Told by the Cockroaches
They say that when the Earth is destroyed beyond habitation, the only survivors will be the cockroaches. Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer gives the indomitable insects the floor in this perversely comic commentary on affluence and self-destruction. Leashed with thin ribbons, a...Watch Movie
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Khadak
Sundance and Toronto Festival hit KHADAK is a magical-realist fable that tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad shepherd who confronts his destiny to become a shaman. After a plague strikes their herd, Bagi and his family are relocated to a mining town. There, he saves the life of Zolzaya, a...Watch Movie
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The Cruise
An animated film by John and Faith Hubley in which everything moves to music and where a juke box is the center of everything. THE CRUISE is a fable of our times, about people and numbers and chance, set on a cruise ship where everything is most correct until a maverick passenger decides to flout...Watch Movie
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The Golden Beetle
As a sorcerer captures a beetle and casts it into his cauldron, it transforms into a glorious woman wearing golden beetle wings and soon turns the tables by casting her own delightful spells. Filled with poetic trick cinematography and optical effects, Segundo de Chomon's THE...Watch Movie
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A Biography of Lilith
In a lively mix of off-beat narrative, collage and memoir, A BIOGRAPHY OF LILITH updates the creation myth by telling the story of the first woman and for some, the first feminist. Lilith’s betrayal by Adam in Eden and subsequent vow of revenge is recast as a modern tale with...Watch Movie
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Someone Else's Voice
Ivan Ivanov-Vano has been described as the Walt Disney of Soviet animation and this 1949 short does indeed recall the creature comforts of BAMBI but with a decidedly intolerant moral. A magpie returning from abroad complains about a nightingale’s staid song. When the outsider...Watch Movie
