Redemption, ein ödes Kaff im Wilden Westen. Hier organisiert der skrupellose John Herod jedes Jahr einen Schießwettbewerb. Diesmal streiten u.a. Profikiller Cantrell, Pokerspieler Ace, Priester Cort und der smarte Kid um die Prämie. Aufsehen aber erregt eine wortkarge Blondine in staubiger Westmannskutte: Auch Ellen will am gnadenlosen Duell teilnehmen...
Mitch Robbins befindet sich mitten in einer schweren Midlife-Crisis. Als ihm seine Freunde Phil und Ed einen gemeinsamen Abenteuerurlaub auf einem Viehtreck vorschlagen, ist Mitch natürlich alles andere als begeistert - wohl wissend, dass er bei dem Trip auf sämtliche Vorteile der zivilisierten Welt verzichten müsste. Schließlich lässt er sich aber doch überreden. Nach einer kurzen Grundausbildung geht die Reise los, und es dauert nicht lange, bis Mitch mit seiner miesepetrigen Art bei Treckboss Curly Washburn aneckt. Aber in der Wildnis hat der erfahrene Cowboy Curly die Oberhand und Mitch muss langsam aber sicher lernen, mit den schwierigen Umständen umzugehen. Er fängt an sich durchzukämpfen und gewinnt dem Leben jenseits des Luxus immer mehr ab.
Eine Siedlerfamilie im Wilden Westen, deren Mutter sich, nachdem der Familienvater getötet wurde, entscheiden muß, ob sie zusammen mit ihrem Sohn iund ihrer Tochter zurück an die Ostküste geht, oder ob sie mit den beiden alleine versucht, den Traum vom selbständigen Leben im Goldenen Westen am Leben zu erhalten.
Die amerikanische Prärie. Eine wundersame Weite voller Leben und Vitalität, bevor sie von der aufrückenden Zivilisation fast zerstört wurde. Die Disney-Filmer verwenden einfallsreiche und innovative Techniken, um die Wunder der auf der Prärie verbleibenden Natur festzuhalten. In diesem Oskar-gekrönten Film können Sie die Fortpflanzung, den Überlebenskampf und die Elemente, die das Leben beeinflussen, beobachten.
Laura, her husband Almanzo and their daughter Rose leave South Dakota and head for Missouri in search of a better, more financially stable life. It's a daunting journey, but they're sustained by their resolve. However, they're faced with an even greater challenge after their arrival: an ailing and bedridden Almanzo is unable to tend their new land. With winter fast on its way, Laura attempts to clear the land herself and plant the acres of apple trees that they hope will ensure their future.
A group of women contracted a strange fever and a former sheriff is responsible for taking them to the hospital in the nearest town, but in their way they will encounter a gang of murderers. His only hope is a woman whose beauty is matched only by his skill with weapons.
Sarah antwortet auf eine Heiratsanzeige und zieht nach Kansas, um dort mit einem jungen Witwer und dessen Kinder probeweise zu leben. Es fällt ihr nicht leicht, das Meer an der Ostküste zu verlassen, aber trotzdem möchte sie versuchen, den Kindern Anna und Caleb ein neues Zuhause zu geben. Auch Jakob, der sich nach dem Tod seiner Frau stark zurückgezogen hat, öffnet sich langsam für Sarah.
The early 1960s: In preparation for his Bar Mitzvah, a Jewish boy, Max Glick (Noam Zylberman) from a small Manitoba community with an overbearing family tries to navigate his coming-of-age with his family's condescension and bigotry using his sarcastic, Jewish humour. The town's rabbi dies, and a sub-plot develops in which Max's father (Aaron Schwartz) and grandfather (Jan Rubes)-both synagogue leaders-are saddled with a traditional Hassidic rabbi who sticks out like a sore thumb among the otherwise assimilated Jewish community. To make matters more difficult, Max likes a Catholic girl (14 year old Fairuza Baulk in just her third film), whom he later competes with in a piano competition. The quirky, fun-loving rabbi tries to help him with his problems, yet harbours a secret ambition of his own.
Filmed in Winnipeg and rural Beausejour, Manitoba, Canada.
Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don't call him a member of the family--yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap. After blundering through a bad first impression, James attempts to win over Sadie's lawyer-loathing father Karl by pretending to be a horse-riding, hay-baling, game-hunting, seasoned square dancer. But a pair of worn jeans and a ten-gallon hat don't make a cowboy, and it's going to take more than mere posturing to charm Mr. Ryder... in fact, it just might take a miracle.
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted “home” and confronts memories of growing up queer in an abusive, evangelical household.
Minnesota 1880: The trust of three Norwegian sisters is tested when a stranger appears on their prairie. When the eldest invites him in to heal her dying sister, she doesn’t realize that a supernatural force is crossing her threshold.
In a post-apocalyptic future, a wheat farmer embarks upon a journey and encounters a variety of unusual characters, while traveling across the land.
Phainesthai explores the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve that is located at the geographical center of the United States and is considered one of the most scarce and endangered ecosystems in the world. The film is an experiential non-verbal documentary addressing how geological and ecological memory can engage individual experience by the embodiment of place with human understanding and aspirations.