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Aicha

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 3, 2026 | Amman 2026, Verdict Shorts |

A mother goes to extreme and mystical lengths to reconnect with her daughter in Aicha, a disquieting, fragmentary and politically pointed folk horror-inflected short.

Gaua

Posted by Carmen Gray | Feb 5, 2026 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2026 |

Paul Urkijo Alijo’s Basque folk-horror Gaua is a ribald, gloomy and deliriously over-the-top vision of sexual liberation in the time of the Inquisition.

The Girl in the Snow

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |

Louise Hemon’s feature fiction debut, The Girl in the Snow, takes real life stories and conjures with them an enthralling period chamber piece with folk horror inflections.

Fréwaka

Posted by Carmen Gray | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Locarno, Locarno 2024 |

Taboo histories of violence against women in Ireland are excavated in Aislinn Clarke’s chilling, over-the-top Irish-language folk horror.

Tag: folk horror

Aicha

Gaua

The Girl in the Snow

Fréwaka