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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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Genres / Fantasy / Fable
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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 takes place just once every thirty...Start your free trial to watch
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A Ballad About Green Wood
Split logs dance in sunlight as soon as the axe has cleared away. Czech folk music and time-lapse photography focus animistic energy upon clouds streaming across the sky, rivers raging with melted snow and the earth bursting with raw life. A mythic being born of wood and a crow flies through winter and...Start your free trial to watch
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Black Night
Oscar, a conservator at the Natural Sciences Museum, passes the days indulging his passion for studying insects; if only there were still days. As long as people can remember, the sun only releases a few pathetic rays for fifteen seconds before noon. The rest of the time, the world is plunged into a night without end, a...Start your free trial to watch
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Bug Me Not!
In this fantasy comedy filled with eye-popping special effects, a major disaster threatens to wipe out both the human and the insect worlds. It is up to the Psychic Park youngsters who possess supernatural powers and the tiny bugs to save the day. An imaginative blend of CG animation and live action, BUG ME NOT is also an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Cameraman's Revenge
After filming several live-action documentaries for the Natural History Museum in Kono, Lithuania, Ladislas Starewicz started a film about fighting stag beetles but was frustrated when the insects refused to perform under lights. Starewicz decided to recreate the fight by articulating dead beetles in...Start your free trial to watch
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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 search of the missing pieces,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Emperor of Peru
A charming and phantasmagoric children's film, THE EMPEROR OF PERU stars Mickey Rooney as an old railway engineer who convinces three children that they can fix up a decayed Pacific steam engine and use it to return a Cambodian refugee to his home country and maybe even save his family. Rarely seen outside...Start your free trial to watch
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Fay's Twelve Days of Christmas
How many Wegman Weimaraners does it take to count the twelve days of Christmas? William Wegman brings together his famous family of Weimaraners to get ready for the holidays in a witty and delightful festival of decorating, crafts, cooking, gift wrapping, fruitcake and more. Watch as Batty, Crooky, Chundo...Start your free trial to watch
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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 GOLDEN BEETLE is a beautiful...Start your free trial to watch
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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 unforgettable images.Start your free trial to watch
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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 beautiful performer/coal...Start your free trial to watch
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Marker
A teenage girl from the Pacific Northwest finds her life changed forever upon contracting a mysterious virus that has plagued the women in her community for decades. Sylvia is your typical teenage girl; she's currently juggling two boyfriends, and her father is a bit more overprotective than necessary. In recent years, a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Miser
A fragment of a Georges Méliès film, THE MISER starts in a counting house where the titular miser is adding up his money and refusing those variously wretched souls who come to him for help. His cash goes missing in the lost middle part of the film and we resume with him groveling in the village on the point of suicide over...Start your free trial to watch
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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 ago, there was a place called...Start your free trial to watch
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Princess Iron Fan
Produced by the Wan brothers in the midst of World War II, PRINCESS IRON FAN is the first feature length animated film produced in China. We follow the Monkey King and his friends on their journey to the west. As they reach Fire Mountain they are unable to pass because of the fire but learn that a special...Start your free trial to watch
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The Private Life of a Cat
Toward the end of their marriage, filmmakers Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid collaborated on the remarkable short THE PRIVATE LIVE OF A CAT. As the film’s furry protagonists, identified only as “She” and “He,” gave birth to a litter of kittens (a process recorded in the film in full though without sound),...Start your free trial to watch
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Riddles for a Candy
In Jiří Barta’s imaginative debut, a magic book poses three riddles to an anteater-like creature. His reward for answering, a wrapped piece of candy, proves elusive. Barta's animation revels in the possibilities of transformation and symbolic logic.Start your free trial to watch
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Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley crafted most of SITA SINGS THE BLUES by herself, a remarkable fact when you consider the labor force required of most feature-length animated films. SITA’s eclectic layering of personal history, epic myth and saucy musical numbers is held together by Paley’s palpable pleasure in the art of...Start your free trial to watch