“The key that a dog holds to unlocking something inside a person is enormous,” someone says in “Folktales,” and if that doesn’t sell you on the movie, I don’t know what will. In fact, if I had a ...

Where the directors' earlier film, the Academy Award-nominated Jesus Camp depicted young children being indoctrinated and browbeaten at a Christian Evangelical summer program, Folktales takes a ...

Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s new documentary follows a group of teenagers learning life lessons at a traditional Norwegian folk high school. Documentaries focused on the teen experience ...

For centuries, mythology looked to gods to explain a disquieting world. But in the new documentary “Folktales,” from “Jesus Camp” filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, which follows a trio of ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

We all know the story: Once upon a time there was a young girl who took a walk through the woods to visit her grandmother, carrying a basket of goodies. When she arrived she found her granny ill in ...

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady head overseas to make a good-looking, content-lite doc set in the Norwegian wilderness. Helmers Ewing and Grady focus on three 19-year-old students who appear quite ...

“I think to be a young woman is chaos. There is no other word for things,” notes Hege, a 19-year-old Norwegian who, like many others her age these days, seems to be searching for something she can’t ...

Peppercorn can turn into a handsome prince, flies can be forgetful, little chickens can dance, and horses can talk. In the world of folktales, impossible is an unfamiliar word, and realism is never ...

Browsing through a weighty new anthology called The Annotated African American Folk Tales is a journey across space and time. In one chapter called "Defiance and Desire," there's a section devoted to ...