Rural Life Movies

Jonás, a teenager about to become a father, has secretly decided to escape.

No one has ever seen a skateboarder at this Loiret skatepark. At first glance, this place away from the village is deserted. But if you hang around...

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and...

During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends...

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

A young woman leaves the comfort of her small rural community to pursue opportunities in a big Canadian city. She encounters obstacles that almost...

In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving, the future is uncertain. But these Franco-Ontarian...

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

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...

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

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.

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

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...

Kadu, a boy from Pakil, Laguna, experiences the dissolution of tradition as it gives way to capitalism in the form of Madame, a foreigner who...

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

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...

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...

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...