El paso de los años hace que Mitch se sienta cada vez más deprimido. Sus dos mejores amigos también tienen problemas: Phil vive atormentado por su dominante mujer, y Ed, recién casado con una bella modelo, duda de que su mujer pueda serle fiel. Dada la situación, los tres amigos deciden dejarlo todo y empezar una nueva vida en Nuevo México.
Ellen, una bella y misteriosa extranjera, llega a una pequeña ciudad del Oeste y se inscribe en una peligrosa competición en la que pistoleros procedentes de todas partes arriesgan sus vidas a cambio de fama y dinero. Los motivos de Ellen son muy distintos: quiere vengarse de Herod, un hombre sin escrúpulos que domina la ciudad, por el daño que le hizo a su familia en otros tiempos.
A homesteading family in 1867 Wyoming faces a crisis when the husband is killed and the wife must decide whether to remain or take her son and daughter back East.
Un grupo de mujeres contrae una extraña fiebre y un antiguo sheriff se encarga de llevarlas al hospital de la ciudad más cercana, pero en su camino se encontrarán con una peligrosa banda de asesinos. Su única esperanza es una mujer cuya belleza solo es comparable a su habilidad con las armas.
Jacob (Christopher Walken), un granjero del medio-oeste, viudo con dos niños pequeños, pone un aviso en un periódico solicitando una esposa que lo ayude a criar a sus hijos. Le responde Sarah (Glenn Close), una mujer soltera del este, que se describe a sí misma como “sencilla y alta”.
Story of the American Prairie as it was when vast herds of bison and elk grazed.
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.
La hija de un ranchero, prometida con un joven abogado de ciudad, consigue convencerle para pasar las navidades en el rancho familiar en las montañas. Pero una sucesión de desastres imprevistos auguran su entrada en la familia con mal pie. Su futuro suegro, un hombre tosco y malintencionado, no de la dará ninguna tregua. (FILMAFFINITY)
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.
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 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.
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.
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.