Rural Area Movies

A documentary following Zhou Yuanquiang, a cultural worker in Jingdezhen, China who makes movies with untrained local actors.

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the...

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

In northern Mexico, residents of a cattle-ranching community struggle to survive amid harsh conditions caused by an ongoing drought.

Former soldier returns to his village only to discover that his girlfriend married another man.

Steve is a zoologist who does research on poisonous snakes with the help of his friend Thabo. He and his wife Katrien are newly weds and very much in...

A family from the Sierra Negra in Puebla spend their days between the cycles of the earth. From time to time, the parents feel anxious when they...

After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his...

Kris is sentenced to two years in a rural Borstal.

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....

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

Argentine filmmaker Gerardo Vallejo, exiled in Spain, visits the Salamanca village of Cespedosa de Tormes, where his grandfather was born, and...

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life...

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must...

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

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son,...

It's post famine and bare-knuckle boxer Dan Power is trying to earn enough money to escape to an easier life in America, but he's starting to suspect...

The last representatives of Mixteco culture inhabit a village in the Sierra Madre. Deprived of their identity by modern civilization, they are facing...