Sundance 2025: 'Folktales' is an Amazing Doc About Dogs and Snow

Every once in a while you come across a film that is so perfectly made to connect deeply with you and your soul, so wonderfully crafted that your emotions reach a boiling point the moment it starts, so exciting in its majesty that you can't help but fall instantly in love with it. Folktales is one of those film – for me, and hopefully for many others who take the time to watch it. Folktales is the latest documentary film from the incredible filmmaking duo Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, who have been to Sundance many times before with many great films including Jesus Camp, 12th & Delaware, Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You, One of Us, Dogs, and the narrative feature film I Carry You with Me. This time they travel up to Norway where they film teens spending a year at a rural folk school above the Arctic Circle. Here, various students learn skills like dog sledding and other solo survival skills which, even if they don't be come dog-sledders after, helps them learn to grow as people and develop themselves in unexpected ways. It's amazing to watch. // Continue Reading ›

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