Rural Life Movies

The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss...

This documentary about poverty in rural working class Swiss communities stands in stark contrast to romantic and idyllic depictions often found in...

Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared...

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they once made up the vast majority of the country,...

Oases are more than fairytale places in the desert sand. Amidst the stony heights of the Andes, the endless expanse of the Pacific, or the hectic...

Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting...

Region of Castilla La Vieja, Spain, early 20th century. In Luján, a village ravaged by drought, Juan, a humble farmer who survives with his...

16-year-old Gary Black is an average football player, budding wordsmith and reluctant hero. Gary helps his local Australian Rules football team win...

The story is centered on the stubborn farmer Ernst and his wife Louise who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a traditional Danish gold...

After Gandugali, a mercenary, rescues a band of soldiers, their chieftain asks him to train them in order to fight the chieftain's rival brother.

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork....

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

A musical portrait of Texas blues songster Mance Lipscomb.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

The apparition of a bloodstain reaffirms the relentless cycle of life, filmed in all its fragility and complexity.

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned...

Pedro, who is having a tough time, receives the news that his grandfather died. He inherits 2 cows and a donkey. He and his uncle go to the village...

Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.

In the Corsican mountains, a son films his father, marked by years of political involvement. In the family’s isolation, silences and gestures...

We invite you to watch the play "The Moromete Family", adapted by Robert Popescu from the novels of Marin Preda.