Golden Harvest

Bare-assed Japan

2008

Taro, who recently graduated from high school, doesn't know what he wants to do. He rents a house and plot of land in the country-side determined to make a living in agriculture. His expectation is great as the girl he likes, Yoko, will also go with him, but his father, recently laid off by his company's down-sizing, is also tagging along and so begins the the trio's strange life in the country. Set at a solitary house in the middle of the desolate, country-side, the relaxed tempo and off-hand humor are impressive despite the themes of parent-progeny conflict and reconciliation that unfold in the film.

The Cheese Sisters

2022 · ★ 8

A family-themed film, drama and comedy that tells a story about a family that has had a long cheese-making ritual.

Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm

1963 · ★ 3.7

Two city kids spend a summer on Uncle Jim's dairy farm. They tend to the animals, climb a rope, and learn all kinds of fun farm facts

Ross & Beth

2014

The story of a humble farming couple, a sudden upheaval and an unlikely saviour.

Frostlands

An 8-year old farm-girl teaches herself to fly, but when her favourite heifer gives birth to a male calf she ends up learning a harder lesson.

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

2022 · ★ 8.1

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

1927 · ★ 6.8

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

At the Foot of the Rainbow

2014 · ★ 5.2

Fifteen years ago 1830s muskrat trapper Dannie Mcnoun, loves Mary and sends his best friend, Jimmy, to win her over for Dannie. Jimmy married her instead. Now neighbors, Dannie works both farms as Jimmy tries to drown his problems with a bottle.

Whistle Down the Wind

1961 · ★ 7.2

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

All My Good Countrymen

1969 · ★ 7.7

The lives of 7 friends in a small Czech town from 1945 to some time after 1958.

Our Daily Bread

1934 · ★ 6.7

John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

Wolf Children

2012 · ★ 8.2

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.