Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part 1

6.5

New Nightmare

October 1994 •English

Cast and crew from A Nightmare on Elm Street are terrorized by Freddy Krueger and his razor-fingered glove as he crosses over into the real world.

7.0

Sita Sings the Blues

February 2008 •English

Utilizing the 1920s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the epic Indian tale of exiled prince Ramayana and his bride Sita is mirrored by a spurned woman's contemporary personal life, and light-hearted but knowledgeable discussion of historical background by a trio of Indian shadow puppets.

6.3

Hans Christian Andersen

December 1952 •English

A small-town shoemaker with a knack for spinning yarns, Hans encounters happiness and heartbreak on his road to becoming a full-fledged writer.

6.7

The Secret of Roan Inish

May 1994 •English

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

7.6

The Fall

September 2006 •English

In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

8.8

Liyana

July 2017 •English

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

7.6

Kubo and the Two Strings

August 2016 •English

Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.

4.7

The New Adventures of Aladdin

October 2015 •French

A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.

7.2

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

September 2023 •English

A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.

6.9

Three Thousand Years of Longing

August 2022 •English

A solitary scholar discovers an ancient bottle while on a trip to Istanbul and unleashes a djinn who offers her three wishes. Filled with reluctance, she is unable to come up with one, so the djinn tries to inspire her with his stories.

0.0

Eden

March 2025 •English

An experimental, mixed-media retelling of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve. Of course, when a story this old is told countless times throughout the centuries, a few important details are bound to get lost in translation...

6.3

Tiddler

December 2024 •English

A small fish with a big imagination gets lost in the deep wide ocean, until he is saved by his own storytelling.

4.5

I am Diego Maradona

April 2015 •Persian

After a rock is thrown through a window, two families become intertwined in a dispute after an incident following an unsuccessful marriage. The couple in question try to hash out what actually went wrong, as the surrounding family members point fingers at one another. Tension builds as all of their other problems seem to bubble to the surface at the same time.

0.0

Scary Stories

June 1991 •English

Creepy creatures crunch... slithery slimies squirm... and skeletons streak the sky. In the land of Scary Stories, anything can happen. Your spine will tingle as you hear about: Gold, high peaks, and an Indian ghost in Chebai - An Adirondack Ghost Story, Things that go crunch in the night in A Light at Night, A creature who haunts the man who ate its tail in Taily Po, and What three boys do when they find out their uncle can turn into a Flying Skeleton.

0.0

Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Part 2

June 2021 •English

It’s story time! Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto as they share their favorite adventures in the magical land of Oz. Enter a legendary world in this storybook rendition of L. Frank Baum’s beloved classic tale, Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz Part 2!

4.0

Fred Pellerin : Comme une odeur de muscles

November 2008 •French

The poet and storyteller Fred Pellerin invites us to enter the fantastic and playful world of Saint-Élie-de-Caxton. There we discover a man named Ésimésac Gélinas, the strongest man in the world! The word juggler will delight your eyes and ears. Comme une odeur de muscles is presented at the Monument-National in Montreal.

0.0

It's The Same Story

September 2011 •Hindi

Two storytellers put forth their versions of the story of Shravan Kumar. The art for the film uses painted images from a wooden portable shrine called a Kaavad. The film is a collaborative work between traditional Kaavad storytellers and Kaavad artists from Rajasthan, together with the filmmaker. Combining lush animation with live-action, the film is an interpretation of two stories which are forever fused in the act of telling and retelling.

0.0

The Writer and the Brown Spider

June 2025 •Portuguese

Lydia (Giuly Biancato) is an aspiring writer kidnapped by Zikto (Renet Lyon), a giant Brazilian brown spider. Every night, she must tell a different story in order to get back her freedom. After many attempts, one story will remain: her own.

0.0

Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: The Marvelous Land of Oz Part 1

September 2021 •English

It's story time. Take a ride with Dorothy and her best pal Toto in Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Marvelous Land Of Oz Part 1.

0.0

Stories Sarah Tells

January 2013 •English

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using humorous, simple line animation, the film comments on the messiness of life and art.