Rural Area Movies

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...

In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp...

Luke and Jonah, two high school sweethearts, spend their final days together over the course of a long, quiet summer in the rural US South,...

On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one...

A young widower named Sam Crockett returns from Kansas City to his small hometown in rural Texas, bringing with him his feisty grandfather and two...

Part Two: SMALL HAPPINESS - Despite the tremendous advances women in China have made, serious problems continue. Long Bow women talk about love,...

Desperate for a break from big city life, Emma heads to her family's cabin deep in the Arkansas hills. As she settles in for some much-needed R&R,...

Set during World War II, Rosario, a school teacher, enters a forbidden relationship with a Japanese soldier, Masugi.

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

Director Hannah Livingston spends 6 months tracking two of America's most radical Christian hate groups - a notorious pastor from Arizona and a...

Orphan boy and vicar's daughter fall in love but her father is strongly opposed to their relationship.

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

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...

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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...

This film illustrates the struggles of Canadian prairies women to achieve a more just and humane society within the farm movement and at large....

A city boy arrives in his late mother's birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by a cougar.

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...

In rural Hayti, Missouri, matriarch Elizabeth Holiday confronts her past when an unexpected call from her former student Jeremy disrupts her routine....