Rice People

Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his...

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding...

In Thailand, a hymn to rice need not always be sung. A dance, or spectacular homemade fireworks can say the same thing. As can a film, as is...

A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the...

The Great Lakes and connecting waterways have remained the center of traditional and contemporary economies for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a...

No one has ever seen a skateboarder at this Loiret skatepark. At first glance, this place away from the village is deserted. But if you hang around...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the melancholic knight Don Quixote of La Mancha and...

The first of a documentary serie about rural France.

Second documentary of a trilogy produced on the long term (together with Profils paysans: l'approche (2001) and Profils paysans: La vie moderne...

Told in the cinematic tradition of classic westerns, “COWBOYS - A Documentary Portrait” is a feature-length film that gives viewers the...

Province of Lugo, Galicia, Spain. A year in the life of A Fonsagrada, a rural region whose inhabitants live both near and far from urban...

Care work, awareness-raising, waste reduction. Thieboudienne, chaufa, paella. What do these recipes have in common? Who cooks them? Where?

A film about rice cultivation that depicts the most beautiful rice field landscape in Japanese cinema history and the most realistic depiction of...

The camera falls in love with the characters, the landscape and the objects and is installed with the tenderness that inoculates the life of the town...

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

In barely a century, French peasants have seen their world profoundly turned upside down. While they once made up the vast majority of the country,...

Set in the mountains of northeast Italy, this film may be considered an observational documentary about rural life. Although this is undeniably the...

It is quickly becoming the most populated country in the world, but India holds a dark secret. Men and women who make their homes in the poor...