Rural Area Movies

A couple and their teenage son eke out a living on a hilltop, doing the laundry for local hotels, despite the intermittent water supply. Their simple...

Bragehus manor receives a new farm bailiff with new ideas on how to run a modern farm. The manor is haunted by a ghost.

Sweet, chubby, theatrical Billy was never cut out to be a farmer or a rugby player, but as the only son of a ‘good kiwi bloke’ he’s...

The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.

In Turkey far too many women are still unable to read and write, and all they see in their life span is being forced into early marriage and...

In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.

On a small Mexican island dwells a group of Indians who live in the traditional manner and who disdain outsiders. The beautiful Maclovia and the...

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

A narrative constructed in the wishful-filmmaking, or “fanumentary”, genre. Rural women artists unite via CR to support one...

Days before deployment to Afghanistan, Joey returns to rural Pennsylvania for Christmas with big dreams of running away to Canada with her beautiful...

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor,...

This film is a story, testimony and documentation of the forced disappearance of 43 student teachers, which exposes the criminal complicity between...

In a small village, young Mert is about to get traditionally circumcised, but the family does not have the money to follow up with the circumcision...

At the heart of the Moroccan High Atlas mountains, water is a resource in short supply. The village of Tizi N'Oucheg has undergone a transformation...

Albert Engström's anecdotes of Småland have been put together to make a comedy film about Johannes and Cornelius, two smallholding farmers...

An intimate study of Dunquin, County Kerry, Ireland, the westernmost village in Europe and one of the last Gaelic-speaking communities. Isolated from...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and...