Rural Depopulation Movies

  • 2021
    Nous paysans

    Nous paysans

    Nous paysans

    7.82021HD

    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,...

    Nous paysans
  • 2017
    Heart North

    Heart North

    Heart North

    02017HD

    The two best friends, Henny and Elvira, are in their last year of junior high school in the small community Norsjö in northern Sweden. At night...

    Heart North
  • 2024
    The American Question

    The American Question

    The American Question

    02024HD

    An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and...

    The American Question
  • 2017
    Seafighters

    Seafighters

    Seafighters

    02017HD

    Living among the percebeiros of the Coast of Death (Galicia), this documentary shows a unique relationship between man and his surroundings, man and...

    Seafighters
  • 2021
    Ashes

    Ashes

    Ashes

    02021HD

    Christian, a young man from the city, travels to a town in Zaragoza, Spain of his recently-deceased father to throw his ashes and give a final...

    Ashes
  • 2024
    Wastelands

    Wastelands

    Wastelands

    02024HD

    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...

    Wastelands
  • 2020
    ciao Aracà

    ciao Aracà

    ciao Aracà

    02020HD

    "...a charming depiction of life as I knew it with my grandparents in my own village..." Clara Caleo Green, Cinema Italia UK "The sum of the...

    ciao Aracà
  • 1978
    I've Got to Live...

    I've Got to Live...

    I've Got to Live...

    01978HD

    The sawmill in a northern Swedish village close down. Nils becomes unemployed. In order to cope with needs of his family, he is forced to travel...

    I've Got to Live...
  • 1981
    The Shepherds of Berneray

    The Shepherds of Berneray

    The Shepherds of Berneray

    01981HD

    In 1980, Jack Shae and Allen Moore, two ethnographic filmmakers from Harvard University, moved their families to the island of Berneray in the Outer...

    The Shepherds of Berneray
  • 1978
    Slipway

    Slipway

    Slipway

    01978HD

    A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned.

    Slipway
  • 1973
    Ett hus i min famn

    Ett hus i min famn

    Ett hus i min famn

    01973HD

    Documentary about the Swedish artist Anders Åberg and the depopulation of his childhood countryside. As jobs in industry fade away many houses...

    Ett hus i min famn