Rural Life Movies
- 2009

My Child
My Child62009HD
harming drama set in a rural area of post-war Iran. This heartwarming story follows a thoughtful young woman who serves as a leader to the community...
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- 2025

Docteur, toute la vie
Docteur, toute la vie02025HD
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- 1970

Rulos
Rulos01970HD
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- 2016

Decorosa
Decorosa102016HD
Decorosa keeps a skeleton costume in her bedroom closet, between her nightgowns. It is what love is.
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- 1970

The Waiting Room
The Waiting Room01970HD
In this speculative documentary, present-day Nation borders have collapsed into vast privatized housing complexes. Epitomizing advanced...
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- 2023

Miyama, Kyōto Prefecture
Miyama, Kyōto Prefecture7.52023HD
The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe...
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- 2022

Return
Return22022HD
Juan, a worker goes to visit his mother after a long time working but his sister prevent him from seeing her. When he discovers the state in which...
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- 1988

Ranch Album
Ranch Album01988HD
Ranch Album depicts real cowboy life and rough country ranching in Northern Arizona season by season, revealing a sense of spirit and culture that...
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- 2026

Between the scenes, between the voices. Unseen footage of the future sound of Slovakia.
Between the scenes, between the voices. Unseen footage of the future sound of Slovakia.02026HD
In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...
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- 1985

Comitiva Esperança
Comitiva Esperança01985HD
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- 2020

Renaixem
Renaixem02020HD
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- 2020

Under the Cold Stars
Under the Cold Stars7.82020HD
Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the...
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- 2008

Praise of the Distance
Praise of the Distance02008HD
Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. A year in the life of A Fonsagrada, a rural region whose inhabitants live both near and far from urban...
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- 2024

Le Père, le Maire et les Saints
Le Père, le Maire et les Saints02024HD
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- 2021

What Remains
What Remains4.52021HD
Emilio is a lifelong farmer in his eighties who lives alone on his abandoned farm. Everyone close is gone. One animal is all there is left. Today is...
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- 2020

Behind Time, Time Comes
Behind Time, Time Comes02020HD
“Behind time, time comes” interlaced with folk songs, narrates the rhythms of rural life, where time and its weight, shape and define the...
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- 2020

Fortuity
Fortuity02020HD
Yahya, a village youth makes a great effort to improve his family life. A decision that will make him pay a heavy price.
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- 2017

Tendre Des Fils
Tendre Des Fils02017HD
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- 1938

Horse Transport
Horse Transport01938HD
portrait of one aspect of rural life
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- 2022

The Helicopter
The Helicopter02022HD
A young family with a baby is visiting elderly parents living in a remote northern village. Suddenly, their child becomes sick with dysentery. There...
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