Rural Area Movies

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

A troubled teenager spends the summer with his grandfather in the Ozarks, where he’s free from his mother, but not her painful past.

A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.

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 another’s work and to show...

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

Narrates the (ups and downs) difficulties of Nahuas immigrants from *Huasteca in Hidalgo State, now loving in Guadalajara. An adolescent just finishin...

The eldest member of a rural community of grape growers refuses to sell his land to a greedy real estate company. When he seems cornered by the dirty...

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 industri...

Li Shouwang is the leader of a blind storytellers team, learned storytelling at the age of 19. His childernare living hard in other cities. Li's money...

Like Don Quixote, Zivan Pujic Jimmy fights for his annual punk festival. A film about failure, ambition, friendship and clinging to your dreams. Glavo...

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 th...

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 tha...

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

A man from rural South Carolina tries to find solace from the demons of his past by starting a Christian professional wrestling league. His goal is to...

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 relegatio...

In Penumbra, the second feature film by writer, producer and filmmaker Eduardo Villanueva Jiménez, an experienced old hunter shows his world within a...

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 way to the bus stop is the same everyday in this remote semi rural neighborhood. But when concrete blocks and trucks start to appear on the middle...

An inside look at Jessica Piper, a Democratic Candidate running for a House seat in District 1 of Missouri. This is a snapshot of her mind and what it...