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Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he's a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.

A short film setting the Irish myth of the Selkie in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia.

Mr. Selkie is a seal who comes ashore in the shape of a man during full moon. He helps some children in an anti-pollution campaign.

According to Scottish mythology Selkies are mythological beings capable of changing from seal to human form by shedding their skin. This film follows the story of such a creature who chooses the sea over her land dwelling sweetheart.

SMALL SELKIE follows Skye, a young girl with a vivid imagination who yearns to become a mermaid. Against the backdrop of the loss of her mother, Skye finds solace by the sea. While collecting shells on the beach, she encounters a trapped “selkie” entangled in plastic pollution, which sparks a deep determination within her to protect the ocean from this harm. Despite her father’s initial disapproval of her hoarding the collected plastic, Skye transforms it into magnificent sea creatures.

A group of Selkies make their way back to sea.

".......unafraid that anyone would hear him he sobbed unreservedly till tears ran down his cheeks and dropped to the water that lapped at his feet. When he was finished he heard a voice in the darkness say “Salt water is the cure for everything”. He jumped up clutching the bag in his hand for a fear had taken over him, “who’s there? He said “are you in the water? I can’t see your face the moon is behind you?” The most beautiful woman he’d ever seen emerged from the rocks just to his right ……" Saltwater, it's either sweat, tears or the sea.." This short film is a new telling of an old story, a contemporary exploration of the Irish folkloric figure of the selkie.

This is an experimental performative and social documentary exploring humankind’s relationship to nature and other lifeforms through the ancient Nordic and Celtic myth of the selkie and the impact of wild swimming on our psyche and wellbeing. Based in different locations and through collaboration with various communities around Scotland.

Selkie is a visually sumptuous short film which explores issues of identity and belonging through visual and oral storytelling. The story is a new piece of writing and storytelling by Niall Moorjani, directed and edited by India Moorjani.

In Celtic and Norse mythology, selkies, meaning ‘seal-folk’, are beings capable of therianthropy: changing from seal to human form. Emerging when the time and tides are correct, seducing or being held captive by human lovers, the composite shape shifting water siren emerges from her underwater world to ours, casting her spell of seductive and violent dance. Is it love and desire or appetite and malice?

A lighthouse keeper is awoken to the sound of women singing on the shore; a group of shape shifting creatures known as selkies have come to shore to dance under the full moon. He catches the eye of one of them on the beach, and they begin a passionate romance. After they are married, a series of increasingly disturbing events and the isolation of living at the lighthouse have The Selkie discomfited. When she becomes pregnant she begins to remember snippets of her old life in the sea, and realizes her husband is not the gentle man she presumed him to be.

Black sand all around. The Selkie vowed to drown as many hearts from the island and spy. Creature in the sea. Arm over arm, swaying!

Set over two time periods, the story is a mix of English and Scots Gaelic and follows Isla; a young girl who returns to the Scottish Highlands with her father, leading her to the mystery of the legendary and mythical being, The Selkie.

A Selkie brother has one chance to come upon land with his sisters who are able to go as they please, they laugh together in the moonlight until they must return to the sea.. on way back he meets the daughter of a selkie woman who is being chased out of town, in an act of unfettered compassion he gives her his seal coat so that she may escape into the ocean in his place, he turns to sea foam as the coat becomes hers at sunrise

A seal in water and human on land, the mythical selkie cannot return to their true home in the sea if their seal skin is stolen. In this modern adaptation a selkie woman trapped on land in human form, longing to return to her underwater realm, unwittingly falls in love with a young fisherman.

The story of the last Seal Child’s journey home. After their mother’s disappearance, Ben and Saoirse are sent to live with Granny in the city. When they resolve to return to their home by the sea, their journey becomes a race against time as they are drawn into a world Ben knows only from his mother’s folktales. But this is no bedtime story; these fairy folk have been in our world far too long. It soon becomes clear to Ben that Saoirse is the key to their survival.

On the coast of Cork, Syracuse is a divorced fisherman who has stopped drinking. His precocious daughter Annie has failing kidneys. One day, he finds a nearly-drowned young woman in his net; she calls herself Ondine and wants no one to see her. He puts her up in an isolated cottage that was his mother's. Annie discovers Ondine's presence and believes she is a selkie, a seal that turns human while on land. Syracuse is afraid to hope again.

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.

Cora Glenhelm, heiress to a powerful fishing empire, travels with her journalist boyfriend to the remote Scottish island of Cralaig to investigate her family’s dark past—only to uncover a deadly connection to a bloodthirsty Selkie lurking offshore.

During a moonlit night, Sine vanishes after childbirth, leaving her husband Magnus devastated. A haunting exploration of Sine's past, unearths the traumatic events that connected her to the selkie realm - a world of mythical creatures who transform from seals into humans by shedding their skins. This poignant journey delves into the profound ties between folklore and the human experience.

A woman finds the courage to confront a toxic attachment.