Rural Area Movies

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.

She is one of the last shepherdesses who still lives with her flock in the heights of the Gya-Miru valley in Ladakh. At the age of 50, Tsering is the...

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

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...

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...

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

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...

As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.

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...

Memo is a nine-year-old boy who lives in Turkey with his mother and little sister, while his father works in a Netherlands seaport. When war looms nea...

The film is not constructed as a lineal story, instead, each scene works as a painter’s brush freely tracing a distinctive shape; the lifestyle of the...

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned west...

Greater Tuna presents a day in the life of the town of Tuna, Texas and its twenty or so eccentric characters. Here's the kicker: All of those characte...

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.

He's the bartender at a bar with no parishioners. There he spends his nights yearning for good times, now that he can not even attract his only neighb...

Described by Dee Rees as a "black lesbian horror film set in the mountains."

SauAcker depicts the obstacles faced by Philipp, a young farmer determined to modernize his father's old-fashioned farm. His motto is "I'll do it my...

A documentary directed by Hori Teiichi who was a production assistant on the 1994 documentary Otentousama ga Hoshii and has worked in a wide variety o...