Rural Life Movies

portrait of one aspect of rural life

Gregório is a rustic and idealistic peasant who lives frustrated in the village of Rosillas. Arrogant and bold, he wants to recover the waters...

Giacomo Meyerbeer's pastoral opera,based on a Breton tale, is the tale of DINORAH who has gone mad because her bridegroom Hoël has disappeared...

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the...

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...

A Traveltalks visit to some small towns in Mexico. In Mazatlán, away from the tourist spots, we see a small village where fishing, growing...

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

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

Young photographer Khaleed Saikat once decided to go for a journey into the unknown. He took his laptop, camera, and some money with him. But no...

The reality of four rural women in the Metropolitan District of Quito. Despite their pain and difficulties, they have managed to forge a life that in...

Hundreds of meters away, above the clouds. Farther, far beyond everything. You are hiding, Susana. Hiding in the immensity of God. Where I cannot...

The camera falls in love with the characters, the landscape and the objects and is installed with the tenderness that inoculates the life of the town...

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

After eighteen years of operating the favourite lunch counter in Manitoba's Interlake region, Ellen and Martin Kihn have retired. A poignant look at...

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...

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

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...