The eldest member of a rural community of grape growers refuses to sell his land to a greedy real estate company. When he seems cornered by the dirty tactics of a corrupt businessman, he must decide whether to give up everything he owns, or take control of the situation.
84-year-old Maura is the guardian of a very particular tradition in danger of extinction. She is a singer of amorfinos, verses full of humor that will disappear forever with her departure.
Follows a big star who brings a film crew to her remote hometown for a shoot, and while the production is afflicted by disagreements between the crew, a bored local restaurant owner finds excitement to be the stand-in for the star.
Greta's parents have decided that the three of them are going back to their hometown. Greta has to tell them that she won't return with them.
A young filmmaker returns to the village where she was born – a hamlet in the north of France – to investigate a strange story about a terrorist threat. She starts with members of her own family, and doesn’t have to go much further. The misunderstanding – as it turns out to be – shows above all how alarmist news items and political machinations in the cities can take on a life of their own, deep in the hinterland.
An inside look at Jessica Piper, a Democratic Candidate running for a House seat in District 1 of Missouri. This is a snapshot of her mind and what it feels like to run a campaign in an overlooked place.
A troubled teenager spends the summer with his grandfather in the Ozarks, where he’s free from his mother, but not her painful past.
The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following, run by a loose network of fiercely independent Arab Canadian immigrants.
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.
Мужчина находится под наркотиками и взят в заложники во время просмотра телевизора. Когда он убегает, он возвращается домой с невероятной историей, которую может рассказать. Основано на реальных событиях.
This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned west of South Bend, Indiana
"LIDA" takes place on the day of Lida's 70th birthday. This already special day is made more unusual by the recent arrival of her grandson, Lev, who had immigrated to the United States with his family in 2001. Returning to Ukraine for the first time as an adult, Lev documents his grandmother as she tends to the small homestead and prepares for the birthday celebration in the rural village in Ukraine. By capturing moments of arduous labor, as well as through personal conversation, Lev inquires into his grandmothers relationship to her home, land - and their family.
Чтобы заработать на жизнь, бывший боксер Дуглас Армстронг по прозвищу Арм начинает работать на семью крупных наркоторговцев. Ему предстоит пройти тяжелое испытание на верность семье и сыну и своей новой семье мафиози, когда он должен впервые убить человека.
A sweeping small town romance exploring the grit of craft, the heart of family, and the pains of love, told over the span of several years.
Начинающий певец, живущий со своей бабушкой в столице Бутана, мечтает получить визу для переезда в Австралию. Но перед этим ему нужно отработать год в деревенской школе Лунаны .
A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.
A whisper among the sprawling forests and mill towns of central Newfoundland. A body found on the side of a river brings together a reclusive fur trapper and a heartsick mother-to-be. Scott is lonely and desperate to give himself meaning. Mona is strong-willed, but frustrated by her fragility. As a reluctant dependence blossoms the pair find themselves wading into violence, answering for the debts of a dead man. Stalked by outlaws, they plan an exit.
В отдаленной македонской деревне Хатидзе занимается пчеловодством и заботится о своей матери, прикованной к постели. Однажды по соседству селится кочевое семейство, и в безмятежный мир Хатидзе вторгаются рычание двигателей, семеро непоседливых детей и 150 коров.
Эстония, 1870-й год. Фермер вместе с женой приобретает за бесценок участок заболоченной земли. Мужчина надеется, что сможет выращивать в здешних краях хороший урожай, тем самым обогатившись. Но к его огорчению, земля оказывается истощенной и на ней ничего не всходит. Не найдя помощи у людей, фермер решает искать справедливости у Бога.