Folk Movies

Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society,...

Donnie Munro's lasts concert as lead singer of Runrig. The band bid a tearful farewell to lead singer Donnie Munro in this live performance at...

Recorded live, at Sao Jorge theatre, Lisboa, 27th March 2007.

In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies, meaning ‘seal-folk’, are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form....

Set on the Northeast Coast where Barry (played by Ben Pearson) haunted by his past ekes out a harsh existence gathering sea coal from the windswept...

Len Ellis makes Love Spoons from his tiny shed in the Welsh Valleys. Len talks all things to do with this folk craft specific to Wales.

A short film documenting the dying tradition of Holmie Day, where islanders on Papa Westray, in Orkney, sail across to the nearby uninhabited island...

Part of the Keluang Man Cinematic Universe.

the live performance have become the most exciting part of the music business for me... And it is not only the playing

A moving image installation piece which uses speculative fiction to explore the fishing industry in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.

‘Get Better – A Film About Frank Turner’ was directed by friend Ben Morse, and follows Frank Turner and his band The Sleeping Souls...

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

The highlights of the 20th Anniversary Concert celebrating the partnership between Wales' best -known political folk singer and the first...

The very first Empyrium concert captured in sound and vision June 11th, 2011, was a landmark date in Empyrium's history. After more than 15 years,...

An oral history of the creation, performance, and legacy of the locally beloved guise beast Old Ned, and his role in the revived tradition of May...

Burning Heart captures the emotion and energy of a yearly tradition in the small English town of Ottery Saint Mary where, on the 5th of November for...

Philadelphia's Tower Theater hosts this soulful 1980 Paul Simon concert. Backed by a band featuring several members of Stuff, Simon delivers solo...

Snippets from found postcards and photographs from the 1920s to the 1980s.

A snapshot into the life of clan elder, Taloch, and his teenage son, Connach, in the South West of England, as they navigate embracing their heritage...