Rural Area Movies

The story of a family; the story of a conflict. The rural and the urban, the past and the present, parents and their offspring: opposing ways of life...

Shubei town, southeast China, the present day. Five years after he fled with RMB 800,000 from a bank robbery, Liu Chuan returns incognito to the...

A coming-of-age story about a filmmaker and his family as they struggle to adapt to both a changing world and a traditional one. Can the filmmaker's...

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...

84-year-old Maura is the guardian of a very particular tradition in danger of extinction. She is a singer of amorfinos, verses full of humor that...

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

13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to...

An independent Australian horror/drama that explores the societal norms that break down among a small group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world....

The film chronicles everyday struggle of a Russian woman for “ordinary” happiness of her family.

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...

Director Pedro came to Japan in April 2011, started shooting in the village Totsukawa of Nara Prefecture. He, as Himotoku, began to spin the story...

A man and his donkey go through their day-to-day routine in a rural Spain.

A controversial documentary about four gay men, who are living on the countryside of Swabia (a rural area in the south west of Germany) far off big...

The villagers of El Dorado, Argentina, shy away from doctors. Then again, they hardly need one. They have almost as many cures for ailments and...

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...

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