Rural Movies

The Saudi family is following strict instructions from their grandfather to remain confined in the desert during the early 1990s. A series of events...

A tomb-raiding gold digger unexpectedly discovers a mass grave. Suspecting that he possesses incriminating information, the perpetrators of the crime...

In a liminal summer between youth and adulthood, a graduated student athlete in rural Ohio grapples with the transition he won’t allow himself...

Under the dawn of the agave fields of Jalisco, Alejandro and Miguel, two friends with a special bond, confront an inevitable farewell. Amidst...

Sofia grew up taking refuge in the river of the village where her grandmother, Salomé, lives. The lightness of summers spent swimming comes to...

A real-time portrait of 2020 unfolds as an Asian-American family in Trump’s rural America fights to keep their restaurant and American dream...

Mick learns about the death of his father through a phone call. Now he needs to return to a home he hasn't been to in 25 years to face his Demons. ...

A woman ends up stranded at a gas station one night, where the manager and his friends are having a beer. It seems she didn't show up by chance, and...

Set in the sparsely populated lobster fishing villages of southern Nova Scotia, Plains is a cinema vérité approach to documenting the...

Juan, a student at an agrotechnical school, feels pressured by his religious environment. Going through an entire day at school will lead him to make...

The Money is about a poor farmer whose bid for a better life ends up bringing calamity to his family. At the urging of loan shark Eok Jo (Choi Nam...

A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold...

A female police commander from the city and a male gendarme captain from the sticks join forces to solve the murder of Vincent who was found dead at...

An anti-nuclear parable, the film tells the story of villagers who each year traditionally hold "sap weddings", thus paying homage to the forest. But...

A desperate choice leads Jack down a path that leaves him beaten and bruised as he struggles against man, nature and his own insanity. Stranded in...

A construction site is set up next to a colony of forest workers. Murgu, a worker on the construction site, and Maria, a girl raised by foresters who...

As a tunnel construction project threatens the natural order of one of Japan's last untouched regions, an old man and his granddaughter Haruna's...

Filmed over five years across varied sites, Devereaux gives quiet attention to the shifting sensations of place. From rain and snow to beaches,...

The unique journey of three reserved and endearing teens as they test their limits, discover the meaning of strong connections and live and learn in...