1. Un viaje por Galicia (Un viaje por Galicia)
(Un viaje por Galicia)
2. De okända utvandrarna (De okända utvandrarna)
Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil.
3. A Kingdom of Tea & Strangers
A feature documentary chronicling one summer at L'Abri, a short-term "monastery hostel" in the English countryside providing shelter for spiritually-homeless people and a hospitable space for honest questions.
4. Figli del Minotauro / Storie di Uomini e Animali (Figli del Minotauro / Storie di Uomini e Animali)
The Mancuso family has practiced transhumant grazing for generations, moving the herd of Podolica cattle from the Marcedusa countryside to the large Sila forests.
5. The Southern Wind (Le vent du sud)
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 villagers are surprised by a wind of renewal. A wind that will give them hope.
6. Walking from Paris to Brest (La Marche de Paris à Brest)
In 1927, filmmaker Oskar Fischinger traveled for three weeks along the side roads between Munich and Berlin, filming frame by frame the people he met along the way and the places he passed through. In 2020, the director did a remake of this film during a month-long walk between Paris and Brest.
7. Like Water Through Stone (A Falta Que Me Faz)
In the Espinhaço Mountains one winter, a group of small-town Brazilian girls are experiencing the end of their youth. Impossible romances leave marks on their bodies and the surrounding landscape. Each of the friends finds her own particular way to overcome the loneliness and to live within a tangle of uncertainty.
It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.
8. Rioja: The Land of a Thousand Wines (Rioja, la tierra de los mil vinos)
By telling the human stories behind the entire value chain that gives life to the Spanish wine with the greatest international projection, ‘Rioja, Land of the Thousand Wines’ portrays a currently blooming wine region underpinned by the talent and the work of the new generations of winemakers that operate side by side with the region’s historic wineries. The film puts the focus on the match between territory and product, wisdom and tradition, and lays a bridge between the origins and the future of Rioja. An immersion into a fascinating world that, through captivating cinematography and careful editing, attempts to find the keys to understanding what Rioja wine is and what makes it so special.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
9. Regreso a Coronel Vallejos (Regreso a Coronel Vallejos)
A bitter postcard of the town of the Buenos Aires countryside that Argentinean writer Manuel Puig portrayed with singular mastery, based on his own land, a town named General Villegas. Its inhabitants never forgave him. However, a woman, owner of a painful and enigmatic past, will build a bridge between Coronel Vallejos, the town created by Puig, and the real General Villegas, trying to reconcile the place with the writer.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
10. Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba (Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba)
(Lupa: Na procura do mito da Raíña Loba)
11. Ruralista: você não nos alimenta e não nos representa! (Ruralista: você não nos alimenta e não nos representa!)
(Ruralista: você não nos alimenta e não nos representa!)
12. The Birds Changed Names And The World Turned Into Ice (Las Aves Cambiaron De Nombre Y El Mundo Se Convirtió De Hielo)
Migrant families experience violence, but they also keep beautiful memories when they arrive in new lands. Fantastic and intimate stories, recalled from childhood, travel across time and space, magically intermingling with the help of the four elements and breaking the boundaries of cinema.
13. Bernard Bovet le vieil homme à la caméra (Bernard Bovet le vieil homme à la caméra)
(Bernard Bovet le vieil homme à la caméra)
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
14. Tierra de mujeres (Tierra de mujeres)
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 maturity unfolds all the beauty of wisdom.
15. East of the Malverns
Scenic route through the Vale of Evesham, Worcester and Great Malvern, with a detour to a lost masterpiece of outsider art.
16. Ordinary Time (Tempo Comum)
The film follows Tarcísio Amaro, a retired miner living in the vicinity of Serra da Estrela, interweaving thoughts on the past and the present, and looking at the decline of rural life in the deserted Portuguese hinterland.
17. Miyama, Kyōto Prefecture (Miyama, Kyōto Prefecture)
The follow-up film to “Barstow, California” takes us to the mountains of Miyama, a remote forest and tourist area north of Kyoto. Uwe Walter, a shakuhachi player from Germany, lives there with his wife Mitsuyo for 30 years. Together with the villagers he prepares the annual Gion Festival. On the eve of the festival, the village representatives tell him that his self-built studio is to be demolished. This brings back memories for him of earlier times and his first steps as a Nō actor. In the manner of a fresco, the film interweaves rural depictions of everyday life with the story of its German protagonist. In the village community with its togetherness of generations, Uwe shares life with his neighbours, with farmers, hunters, woodsmen, poultry farmers and anglers, tills his kitchen garden, and like other tradition-conscious villagers, he also grows his rice. The film shows them in a harsh mountain landscape between the rainy season and the first snow.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
18. Las Hurdes, a Land with Soul (Las Hurdes, tierra con alma)
A modern answer to Luis Buñuel's mythical documentary “Land Without Bread” about Las Hurdes, a historically impoverished region of the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, and also a journey of discovery of the soul of this beautiful land and its inhabitants.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
19. Remember me? (Lembra de mim?)
Shot on the farm of the Director's grandfather, the short film "Remember me?" shows how certain places can be sources of great inspiration and nostalgia.
20. North by Current
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.
It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.
