“Folktales,” in theaters right now, is one of the most moving and beautiful movies of the year. It follows a few kids as they attend Pasvik Folk High School in Norway. This is where kids come from all ...

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 ...

A second Oscar nomination could be in the offing for the "Jesus Camp" filmmakers, who trekked to Norway more than once to chronicle a gap-year school that teaches dogsledding and survival skills.

“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 ...

Folktales As much as directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing embrace the specificity of their setting—Finnmark, Norway's Pasvik Folk High School, an Arctic circle venue for learning age-old skills like ...