Description
Magnolia Pictures, Loki Films, Fifth Season, Impact Partners & Topic Studios
Present
FOLKTALES
Directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
2025 | USA | 106 minutes
“DOG LOVERS SHOULDN’T MISS THIS. HONESTLY, NO ONE SHOULD.”
– Rogerebert.com
“A timeless tale of coming into one’s own.”
-Moveable Fest
“A warm and big-hearted crowd pleaser.”
– Hollywood Reporter
Official Selection
2025 Sundance Film Festival – World Premiere
2025 Provincetown Film Festival
2025 DC/DOX
2025 Nantucket Film Festival
FRIDAY, OCT 24TH
7 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)
FOLKTALES Trailer HERE
SYNOPSIS
In Oscar®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s life-affirming film, teenagers converge at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway where they must rely on only themselves, one another, and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions.
In Norse mythology, the three “Norns” are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape humans’ futures. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway aims to produce a similar life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional “gap year” learning to dog sled and survive the Arctic wilderness, in hopes of finding connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Siberian huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, animals and humans around them. Through intimate verité storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Ewing and Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.