Rural Area Movies

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

A cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing landscapes of rural America in the era of...

A sister comes to terms with what it means to come of age in rural isolation, but the adversity of the outside world is no comparison to the...

A mother and daughter returning from their vacation experience car trouble forcing them to pull over and seek help. Luckily near by is a farm where...

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

An Epic Of Passion Swept Lives! The village hero - boasted and popular- yet a coward. Lauded by every loafer- the friend of vagabonds - yet his...

A smuggler's daughter falls in love with the son of a customs inspector.

When the Weatherman puts on his boots it gets frosty, when he puts on his scarf it gets windy, and when he puts on his hat it gets warm. The problem...

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

Greta's parents have decided that the three of them are going back to their hometown. Greta has to tell them that she won't return with them.

The Bapst Brothers: Romain, Maurice and Jacques – whom we will also meet in The Gruyere Chronicle (produced in 1990) – are peasants and...

A cinematic story of drama after the drama and war that rages on in people's hearts even after the war. The hero, an Orthodox Christian monk, finds...

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

Law graduate Ylva Markner spends the summer on the island of Väddö, where she gets involved in a quarrel concerning a last will.

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...

While a couple walks along the river, hunters hide behind a hill and friends in the forest recall the Dancer of Clavesana, a metaphor of free love...