Movies: Farm life

A historical drama set in the 1930s Isan province Thailand, telling the travails of a small clan of subsistence farmers and their village as a particularly bad drought reduces them to bush living....

After the death of their mother, three middle-aged siblings in west Wales must decide how to plan their futures and what to do with the family farm, which they still live on and which she has left equally between them in her will. The stress and unce...

Household effects and farm implements under the hammer. Here is the auctioneer's cajoling patter, the jostling crowd, pungent observations from one or two old-timers and, over all, the kindly curiosity of folks who gather to see the end of a neighbou...

India's prosperous Green Revolution was led by Punjab, a state in northern India famous for its lush rice fields and wet, fertile soil. But as farmers are conned into buying more and more pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers that they don't need, w...

An adolescent girl tries to dream about memories of Mother while having to be physically present in the surrounding farm with grandmother....

Snooky the Human-Zee is a farm hand....

Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest...

In the tradition of ETRE ET AVOIR and some of THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL Fifty children of mountain farmers, six miles of walking to school, a childhood in the heart of Switzerland....

Portrait of a couple who decide to work and live for the summer time on a lonely alp....

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....

A ground breaking movie about why tractors are part of the family....

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Local, organic, and sustainable are words we associate with food production today, but 40 years ago, when Fran and Tony McQuail started farming in Southwestern Ontario, they were barely spoken. Since 1973, the McQuails have been helping to build the ...

This film presents geographic and cultural aspects of Italy with an account of one family living on a small farm, who, unlike many Italians seeking modernization, avoid mechanization in preference for a simple way of life....

Documentary about three sisters in the small village Gallejaur. They live on a farm which they run in the same way it was run in the 19th century....

Two young farmers fall in love and dream about having a baby boy....

Documentary portrait of 5 farming families and their struggles...