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Folklore & Fairytales

Oct 31—Nov 6, 2025
    Part of
  • BAM Film 2025
This selection of unusual, beautiful, and often haunting tales from across the globe features stories that have been passed down through generations—or at least feel as though they have. Through these fables tell of witches, princesses, and enchanted animals, audiences will also find insights into the beliefs and rituals of the cultures in which the films are set.
 

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BAM Film provided by
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  • Film

    White Reindeer

    Oct 31—Nov 3, 2025

    White Reindeer

    Oct 31—Nov 3, 2025
    Newly married Pirita wants her busy husband to spend more time at home, and seeks the help of a nearby shaman. But what she thinks is a love potion instead results in a monstrous transformation.
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    White Reindeer

    Oct 31—Nov 3, 2025
    A woman who wants her husband to spend more time at home takes a potion with monstrous results.
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    Viy

    Oct 31—Nov 2, 2025

    Viy

    Oct 31—Nov 2, 2025
    Based on a Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name, this nightmarish Soviet-era fantasy feature recounts the tale of a Kiev seminary student who becomes entangled with a powerful, seductive witch.
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    Viy

    Oct 31—Nov 2, 2025
    A Kiev seminary student becomes entangled with a powerful, seductive witch.
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    The Wolf House

    Oct 31—Nov 6, 2025

    The Wolf House

    Oct 31—Nov 6, 2025
    Presented as an animated propaganda film, The Wolf House tells the story of a girl who finds refuge in a house occupied by two pigs after escaping from a religious sect, until her feelings transform the setting.
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    The Wolf House

    Oct 31—Nov 6, 2025
    In a film disguised as propaganda, a girl seeks refuge after escaping from a religious sect.
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    Donkey Skin

    Nov 1—Nov 3, 2025

    Donkey Skin

    Nov 1—Nov 3, 2025
    Catherine Deneuve plays a princess who hides as a scullery maid to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal from her father, the king, in this topsy-turvy riches-to-rags fable with songs by Michel Legrand.
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    Donkey Skin

    Nov 1—Nov 3, 2025
    A princess hides as a scullery maid to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal from her father.
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    November

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025

    November

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    Two aged prostitutes who plan to rob two masked wrestlers while celebrating their victory in the ring are forced to hide from the police and run away together when their plot takes a fatal turn.
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    November

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    Love is complicated in a landscape where spirits, werewolves, and the devil himself converge.
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    The Outcasts

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025

    The Outcasts

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    The intense daughter of an impoverished rural 19th-century Irish family, accused of witchcraft after consorting with a conjurer, starts to experience surreal, poetic flashes of her latent powers.
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    The Outcasts

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    The intense daughter of an impoverished 19th-century Irish family is accused of witchcraft.
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    Bab’aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025

    Bab’aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir tells the story of a blind dervish and his spirited granddaughter wandering the desert in search of a great reunion.
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    Bab’aziz: The Prince That Contemplated His Soul

    Nov 1—Nov 5, 2025
    A blind dervish and his spirited granddaughter wander the desert in search of a great reunion.
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    The Juniper Tree

    Nov 2—Nov 3, 2025

    The Juniper Tree

    Nov 2—Nov 3, 2025
    Björk makes her first film performance in the stark, stunning debut feature by Nietzchka Keene, the tale of two sisters forced to flee for safety after their mother is burned to death for witchcraft.
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    The Juniper Tree

    Nov 2—Nov 3, 2025
    Björk makes her first film performance in the stark, stunning debut feature by Nietzchka Keene.
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    The Mad Fox

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025

    The Mad Fox

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025
    A court astrologer’s wife conspires to murder, the astrologer’s apprentice goes mad in the woods, and the presence of ancient fox spirits may be the key to peace for a mythically depicted Japan.
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    The Mad Fox

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025
    The presence of ancient fox spirits may be the key to peace for a mythically depicted Japan.
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    Ashik Kerib

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025

    Ashik Kerib

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025
    An Azerbaijani minstrel sets out on a quest of a thousand days and nights to earn sufficient wealth to marry his beloved, in a story conveyed with music and color more than words.
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    Ashik Kerib

    Nov 2—Nov 6, 2025
    An Azerbaijani minstrel sets out on a quest to earn sufficient wealth to marry his beloved.

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