誰もが知っているアメコミのヒーローを巨費を投じて復活させた超娯楽作。素朴な田舎を背景に少年時代のスーパーマンを描いた、郷愁に満ちた序盤からデイリー・プラネットの記者として活躍する本編に入っても、暖かみを伴った面白さは一瞬たりとも揺らぐ事は無く、悪の天才レックス・ルーサーの陰謀を食い止めるクライマックスまで一気に見せきる。
この選挙、何かおかしい！？民主党の選挙参謀ゲイリー・ジマー（スティーヴ・カレル）は、ヒラリー・クリントンが大敗し、打ちのめされていたが、ウィスコンシン州の小さな町役場で不法移民のために立ち上がる退役軍人ジャック・ヘイスティングス大佐（クリス・クーパー）のバズっているYouTube動画を見て、リベラルな演説で人々の胸を打つ、彼こそが中西部で民主党の票を取り戻す、起死回生の秘策だと確信。ゲイリーは、スイング・ステート(激戦州)のウィスコンシンを足掛かりに地盤を広げるべきと党を説得し、単身アポなしで田舎の寂れた町、ディアラーケンへと赴き大佐に民主党からの町長選出馬を要請する。ゲイリー自身が指揮を取ることを条件に大佐は出馬を了承し、大佐の娘ダイアナ（マッケンジー・デイヴィス）や住民のボランティアと、地道な選挙活動がスタート。しかし、対立候補の現役町長ブラウンに、共和党が宿敵、トランプの選挙参謀フェイス・ブルースター（ローズ・バーン）を送り込む。その日から、ディアラーケン町長選をめぐるゲイリーVSフェイスの戦い、否、民主党VS共和党の巨額を投じた「仁義なき代理戦争」の幕が切って落とされた。選挙資金の調達やテレビCMの応酬など、あの手この手で抗争がエスカレート！果たして次期政権を懸けた、なりふり構わぬ選挙戦の行方やいかに？
ヒマラヤ山脈の標高4800メートル、8日間のトレッキングでしかたどり着けない実在の村を舞台に、都会から来た教師と子どもたちの交流を描く。ブータン山間部の素朴な暮らしぶりを、圧倒的な映像美で映し出す。
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.
The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss annexation.
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.
China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.
Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
In a small village surrounded by mountains somewhere in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa waits for the return of her only surviving relative: her son, who works in a South African coal mine. It is Christmas and he would come home. Messengers, however, bring the sad news: her son died in a mining accident.
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.
After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.
Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his rural Michigan hometown following the death of his infant niece and the subsequent arrest of his brother-in-law as the culprit. Using the audio-visual approaches of essay film, first-person cinema vérité, staged actions, and decades of home movies, Madsen navigates a town steeped in opioid addiction, economic depression, and religious fervor, while using the act of filmmaking to rebuild familial bonds and reimagine justice. Posing empathy as a tool for creating a more just world, North By Current does not seek to investigate a crime, but creates a relentless portrait of an enduring pastoral family, poised to reframe and reimagine narratives about incarceration, addiction, trans embodiment, and ruralness.
Five houses, one bus stop, cows and nothing but fields. 24-year-old Christin lives on the farm of her long-term boyfriend Jan. The exciting post-reunification years that defined her childhood are long gone. Her relationship is loveless. She keeps the cherry liqueur close at hand. In the shimmering heat of summer, time seems to stand still – until 46-year-old wind energy engineer, Klaus, arrives.
When Hugo, a boy who spends his summer vacation with his cousins, discovers that the wolf Rong intends to take his grandmother Sara, he devises a plan to save her.
This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise Center, a mega-sized industrial park planned west of South Bend, Indiana
The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.
仕事を辞めたばかりの息子が、グラビアカメラマンの父親に誘われ避暑地の山荘へやってくる。息子は妻の不倫、父は離婚の危機と互いに問題を抱えながらも、 2人は亡き祖母が集めてきた古着のジャージを着て、夏休みをのんびりと過ごす。翌年の夏、2人は猛暑の東京から逃れるように山荘へ向かう。
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. In a desolate region, where the wind seems to speak, where misery and hunger reign over poorest, a desperate man takes his revenge on those who caused his ruin during the darkest night, unable to get honestly the bread needed to feed his family in the daylight.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
