Rural Movies

A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.

A song is heard in the distance. It comes from the Hekeng village, famous for its ancient earthen buildings, also called tulou. It is where the last...

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house,...

Damián, a dowser and family man suffocated by debt, receives an assignment to find water that becomes his last chance to keep his family...

A country boy loves the daughter of his boss and godfather. An engineer who comes from the city is interested in the young woman who corresponds to...

In 1976, Raquel and her girlfriend have car trouble and break down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. At the same time, a group of...

After the death of his mother, Raúl is forced to look for his father to solve a legal problem with a property, he finds him in a distant town...

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

An experimental short film exploring fragile masculinity, small town mentality and cultural confusion, following a young Australian man on a spirit...

William Wells defends the viability of Fogo Island and expresses his apprehension about the exodus of young people.

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.

The surprising death of her husband hits Anna like a blow: Suddenly she is completely alone and has to take care of the management of the apple...

Sabine and Natacha are 22. They live ‘here’, in the sticks, next door to each other. One day, Natacha has an opportunity: leave...

Through a collage of spaces and times, the interventions and interferences of nature and human beings in the south of Brazil reveals themselves... or...

As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary...

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest. But...