Rural Area Movies

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".

A sweeping small town romance exploring the grit of craft, the heart of family, and the pains of love, told over the span of several years.

A large city is in a state of panic, in workplaces and in homes people are discussing the terrible fate that has befallen a little girl named Birte....

Pimdao, a successful real estate developer and businesswoman, is injured in an accident that kills her beloved daughter at a time when the two are...

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siberian village, where she is confronted with...

A partnership between the Government of Mali and an American agricultural investor may see 200-square kilometers of Malian land transformed into a...

A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in...

In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But...

A whodunnit on a sheepstation.

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

Basement Games tells the story of Laura, a young traveling photographer who, while traveling in southern Chile, is kidnapped by some brothers who...

Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living hard in other cities. Li's...

Brothers Erik and Sigvard live by old traditions - they grow their own food and bake their own bread. The only time they leave their family farm is...

Greater Tuna presents a day in the life of the town of Tuna, Texas and its twenty or so eccentric characters. Here's the kicker: All of those...

A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety...

An elegy dedicated to rural life and its inhabitants. A soundscape that evokes the history of the countryside and suggests the loss of a lifestyle...

A man and his donkey go through their day-to-day routine in a rural Spain.

A coming-of-age story about a filmmaker and his family as they struggle to adapt to both a changing world and a traditional one. Can the filmmaker's...