Wild Mussels (2000)

En mayo de 1983, un hombre de 49 años, acompañado de su hijo, viaja al pueblo de su infancia, en Baden. Su deseo es descubrir qué le sucedió en realidad a su madre. Sus recuerdos son muy borrosos y, además, por aquel entonces era demasiado pequeño para comprender lo que ocurría a su alrededor.

México. Estado de Chihuahua. Comunidad de los Menonitas. Johan, casado con Esther, con la que tiene siete hijos, vive desde hace dos años una historia de pasión con Marianne. Entre sus dos vidas, sus dos mujeres, la elección es imposible. Confiesa su situación a su amigo Zacarías y a su padre, que es predicador y considera que la vida de su hijo se halla bajo la influencia del diablo. Sin embargo, los dos lo apoyan, lo compadecen. Y lo envidian...

In search of a new lifestyle, Johannes and his wife Pernille leave the city and move with their two children to Johannes’ childhood town in the country. When Johannes’ drunken brother Lars accidently runs over Anna, a local, and plants false evidence pointing at the emigrant Alain, Johannes stands up to defend Alain. But it comes with a price.

Austria, años treinta. En el campo aparece el cadáver degollado de un viejo terrateniente despótico y a su lado una anciana desconocida que, supuestamente, es la autora del crimen. Para sorpresa de todos, en su testamento el hacendado divide la herencia entre siete de sus jornaleros, al parecer, con el objetivo de que se enfrenten por la tierra.

Tras el fin de la Guerra de Secesión, un combatiente confederado llamado Jake Sommersby (Richard Gere) retorna a su hogar para encontrarse con sus amigos y familia seis años después de su marcha. Cuando llega a su destino, su esposa Laurel Sommersby (Jodie Foster), alentada por Orin Meecham (Bill Pullman), comprometido con ella ante la larga ausencia de su marido, dudará de la verdadera identidad de Jake... Remake de "El regreso de Martin Guerre", film francés de 1983, pero ambientada tras la guerra de secesión.

En una tranquila granja de la campiña holandesa, la nonagenaria Antonia repasa su vida. Tranquilamente acostada en su cama, hace memoria hasta el día, poco después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en que volvió al pueblo en el que nació. A partir de ahí, recuerda su vida durante los cincuenta años siguientes, así como la de sus hijos y nietos. Un día tras otro, el comportamiento independiente, inconsciente y algo excéntrico de Antonia y su familia, y en especial su lucha por el feminismo, se mezcla con la vida cotidiana del pueblo en que viven. La vieja granja se convierte en el hogar de personajes muy variados en los que el resentimiento inicial se convierte en tolerancia y, posteriormente, en amor.

En el principio del siglo 19 , Johannes Elias Alder nace en un pequeño pueblo en las montañas de Austria . Mientras crecía es considerado extraño por los otros aldeanos y descubre su amor a la música , sobre todo a tocar el órgano en la iglesia local . Después de experimentar una "maravilla acústica " , sus cambios en el color de los ojos y se pueden escuchar hasta los sonidos más sutiles . Elias se enamora platónica con Elsbeth , la hermana de Peter , el hijo de un vecino , quien amar sentimientos hacia Elias desde entonces. Después de Elsbeth se casa con otra , Elias ( 22 años) decide poner fin a su vida por no dormir nunca más..

La hija aún no nacida de Mamlakat está contando su historia. Mamlakat tiene diecisiete años, es bonita y vivaz, y sueña en secreto con ser actriz. Vive con su padre y su hermano en un pequeño pueblo de la Asia central donde una noche es seducida por un actor de una compañía errante, quien se hace pasar por amigo de Tom Cruise, y la deja embarazada. Mamlakat intenta abortar, pero su padre y su hermano deciden encontrar al seductor, iniciando una cascada de cómicas aventuras.

The most important political, post-military junta satire about the nation, the religion, the education, the family.

In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind - and lonely. Fully aware of the men’s dire situation, the astute mayor of Sugar Town promises to find them wives in Russia, as part of his re-election campaign. Against the odds and local traditions which frown upon mixed marriages, the bridegrooms from SugarTown set out on a great journey to find their future brides and happiness.

Breza, a country boy from a godforsaken Prekmurje village, wishes to perform at the village festivities playing his electric guitar, but is faced with fierce competition in the form of a traditional Roma band entertaining the villagers by playing popular folk music. Nevertheless, his music seems to be the key to the heart of Silvija, a village beauty and the daughter of a wealthy gastarbeiter from Switzerland, who was sent home to find a healthy Slovene husband. However, the story of Breza and Silvija only marks the beginning of the plot whose main character is actually Düplin, an eccentric outsider, a deaf-and-dumb tramp or, as Breza's mother, the old Popovka, a farm owner and a fortune-teller also referred to as Strina, called him "a lad from a citrus producing country".

A wealthy NRI falls hard for a country girl during a visit to his homeland.

As the most popular North Korean production of the 1980s, Bellflower earned lead actress O Mi-ran the honorific title "People's Actor." O's character, Jin Song Rim, strives to turn her humble mountain hometown of Pyokgye-ri into a model socialist village. Released when the economic foundations of the DPRK were starting to tremble, Bellflower praises the spirit of workers who accept their roles and work for the betterment of the nation. ~ Korea Society.

Pajo is a hardworking, lonely but also very rich farmer. His son Toma was, however, bored with country life and tried to seek fortune in the city. Short on money, Toma returns to the farm for a handout while Pajo tries to convince him to stay.

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.

It's about a little village in Switzerland, and about one guy who lives there since 32 years and doesn't know anyone there...

Girls in my Hometown, released in 1991, is a melodrama dealing with individualism and sacrifice. A young girl has a friend who has just come back from abroad, bringing with her foreign fashions and foreign ideas. When the solider to whom the friend was engaged becomes blinded in an accident, she decides to put herself first, neglecting her duties to her fiancé and the community she lives in.

Zaman is a sweet and sad story about love and devotion, hope and fear. Zaman (Sami Kaftan), and his wife, Najma (Shatha Salim), have built their happy life together in their house of reeds and, though childless, adopted a boy, Yacine (Hussein Imad), orphaned by the 1991 Gulf War. They have lived a quiet, contented existence until Najma falls ill. The local doctor tells them she needs surgery or some special medicine he does not have. And so Zaman sets off in his small boat and journeys up the Tigris to Baghdad in search of the precious cure. Thus begins the journey of salvation and discovery for "Zaman, the Man of the Reeds."

Honza Marak has long since abandoned a career in IT and has bought a cottage on the outskirts of a small village, where he’s settled in with his wife Marketa, daughter Anyna and son Sayen. He works in the woods as a forest labourer repairing roads and enclosures, cutting wood to sell and assisting the foresters. Marketa earns a living as a masseuse and alternative healer, making use of various mind-altering plants and mushrooms, which leads to conflict with the old inhabitants and eventually with drug enforcement. Daughter Anyna attends a distant school where her grades deteriorate as she wanders the woods learning from nature rather than from her textbooks.

In the main square of the town of Avila, everybody is celebrating the feast of Saint Eurosia, protector of earth's harvest. But something is happening in the village bar...