Rural Area Movies

Routine Pleasures, Slow Cinema.

The Paraguayan railroad, created in 1861, fell in the late twentieth century in decline. Operated for decades by foreign companies and later by the...

From Bjørnson's novels about romance in 19th century Norway. Thorbjörn Granliden is raised severely by his parents who notice that he is...

Fictionalized from a true story, this docu-drama takes us on a journey through Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul and into the lives of Brazilian gauchos....

A rural doctor in the north of Sweden must travel for hours to his patients. When a young woman has a serious case of appendicitis the doctor must...

Two friends meet after 15 years. They have a complicated and intimate past that becomes impossible to deny in spite of intentions to the contrary.

A lonely fisherman drowns and his elderly brother Efraim is left to do an inventory of the estate. He discovers that his brother had a son,...

In recent years it has become the handiest character of Mexican cinema: the Chilango fleeing the capital to the province in search of something. But...

Argentine filmmaker Gerardo Vallejo, exiled in Spain, visits the Salamanca village of Cespedosa de Tormes, where his grandfather was born, and...

A large city is in a state of panic, in workplaces and in homes people are discussing the terrible fate that has befallen a little girl named Birte....

In a rural parish in 1906, young Heikki, one of the Finnish immigrants, lives a wild and free life in the deep forest. After poaching, his furs are...

A sweeping small town romance exploring the grit of craft, the heart of family, and the pains of love, told over the span of several years.

A story about love, hate and loneliness, depicting several days from the life of two brothers. They work as track walkers on a railway somewhere in...

Pseudo-ethnological documents about two villages which, without roads and electricity, "stopped existing".

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...

Set in an Aussie farmhouse and a 50's style diner, Rocfish presents this classic tale of a Father's love for his runaway child.

A family from the Sierra Negra in Puebla spend their days between the cycles of the earth. From time to time, the parents feel anxious when they...

To get away from his nagging wife, a man goes to a desert island to settle down there.

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