Rural Life Movies

Two women discuss the roles and problems of women, education, and shopping on Fogo Island.

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

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

Titou will soon be forty. He lives high up in a sheep shed in the Corbières mountains. With Soledad, who lives in a nearby caravan, they make...

Following a violent earthquake in the Lazio hinterland, Sebastiano is forced to go for a short stay in the large house of his aunt Lavinia and his...

In Canada, the village of Val Gagné is facing a rural exodus. Life seems to be dissolving, the future is uncertain. But these Franco-Ontarian...

This short documentary illustrates rural French Canadian life in the early 1940s. The film follows Alexis Tremblay and his family through the busy...

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

An extraordinary and unexpected snapshot of rural life in wartime in which a young black girl is crowned Queen of the May.

portrait of one aspect of rural life