Avakai Biryani (2008)

ロッキー山脈の麓に孤立する村ドッグヴィル。ある日この村の近く、ジョージタウンの方向から銃声が響いた。その直後、村人の青年トムは助けを請う美しい女性グレースと出会う。間もなく追っ手のギャングたちが現われるも、すでに彼女を隠し、その場を切り抜けるトム。彼は翌日、村人たちにグレースをかくまうことを提案した。そして、“2週間で彼女が村人全員に気に入られること”を条件に提案が受け入れられる。そうしてグレースは、トムの計画に従って肉体労働を始めることになるのだが…。

1890年代の米国南部。戦死したと思われていたジャックが6年ぶりに帰還し、妻や村人たちは動揺する。しかも、粗野だった彼は温和な性格に変わっていて……。謎めいたラヴ・ストーリー。

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.

It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.

都会に出たものの馴染めないでいたいち子（橋本愛）は、故郷である東北地方の小さな集落・小森に戻ってくる。山に囲まれた小森の周辺にはスーパーやコンビニはないため、畑で農作物を作ったり、野山で季節のものを採ってきたりして、自給自足に近い生活をしなければならない。山の恵みを使って、夏にはグミジャムや岩魚の塩焼き、秋はくるみごはんや栗の渋皮煮などを作るいち子。もちろん自然には厳しさもある。季節の移ろいを感じ、ふと立ち止まって自分自身と向き合いながら、いち子はおいしいものを食べて次の一歩を踏み出す勇気を得ていく。

After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.

間違って友だちのノートを持ち帰ってしまった少年が、ノートを返そうと隣村へと走る! キアロスタミ監督の名を世界的なものにした作品で、通称“ジグザグ道3部作”と呼ばれる作品の第1作。

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.

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

“小森”は東北のとある村の中の小さな集落。いち子（橋本愛）は、一度街に出て男の人と暮らしてみたものの、自分の居所を見つけられずに、1人でここに戻ってきた。“言葉はあてにならないけど、わたしの体が感じたことなら信じられる”と、何事も自分でやってみないと気が済まない性格のいち子は、稲を育て、畑仕事をし、周りの野山で採った季節の食材を料理して食事を取る毎日を過ごしている。そんな静かなある日、彼女の元に1通の手紙が届く。それは、5年前の雪の日に突然失踪した母・福子（桐島かれん）からだった。甘酒とカボチャを使って作った3色ケーキ、子供の頃から大好きな出来立てアツアツの納豆もち、ふきのとうでつくるばっけ味噌……。母のレシピを料理しながら思う。“私は母さんにとって本当に家族だったろうか……。”今までの自分、そしてこれからの自分を思い、心が揺れ始める。親友キッコ（松岡茉優）との小さな口げんかでは、“私は、ちゃんと向き合えなくて、それで小森に帰ってきたんだな……”と落ち込む。さらに、小森のこれからを真剣に考えるユウ太（三浦貴大）からは、“いち子ちゃんは1人で一生懸命やっててすごいなと思うけど、本当は逃げてるんじゃないの”と指摘され、言葉を返せない。長かった冬も終わりに近づき、雪解けが進んできた。少しづつ畑の準備を進めてきたものの、いち子は春一番で植えるジャガイモを、今年は植えるかどうか迷っていた。来年の冬、ここにはいないかもしれないから……。自分の本当の居場所を探すいち子が、春の訪れと共に出した答えとは……。

Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only dreamed of. She actively pursues a friendship with him, fascinated by his cynicism and experience of the world beyond her small-town existence. But many, including the members of both their families (Otto, Moy), frown upon the friendship and when Celia goes missing, Paul becomes the increasingly loathed and persecuted prime suspect in her disappearance. As the violent and urgent truth gradually emerges, Paul is forced to confront the family tragedy and betrayal that he ran from as a youth, and to face the grievous consequences of silence and secrecy that has surrounded his entire adult life.

Villaviciosa de al Lado is a peaceful town stuck in time, living exclusively of the fame of a 200 years-old spa. Therefore, city hall's debts threatens to close the spa and ruin all town. Their salvation becomes when suddenly mayor Anselmo and the rest of members of city hall realize that they won the Christmas Lottery. But their happiness turns in horror after to discover that the prize belongs to a serial number distributed by the town's brothel, causing the suspicion of the wives and fear of the husbands after a TV interview where Mari, brothel's owner, claims that the almost men of the town will have prize from the lottery. Wanting a way to charge the prize to save the town without having to suffer the anger of their respective women, Anselmo, Ricardo, César, Juandi and Paco plots a plan in order to steal the money from the brothel, meanwhile Mari tries reconcile her stranded life and restore the memory of her deceased father, a former mayor.

豊かな自然に恵まれた田舎町。右田そよは、小中学生合わせても全校生徒がわずか6人しかいない分校に通う中学2年生。そんなある日、その学校に東京からひとりの男子生徒・大沢広海が転校してくる。そよにとっては初めての同級生で、しかも都会的な匂いを自然にまとったイケメンの彼の様子に、彼女の心は思わずときめく。当初はクールでちょっととっつきにくい彼に戸惑いを覚えるそよだったが、やがて2人は恋人同士となる。

A comedy/drama set in a village and centered on a battle of the sexes, where women threaten to withhold sexual favours as long as the men refuse to install a water pipe.

An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.

Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.

Everything changes in the life of a young 15-year-old Chukchi hunter Lyoshka with the advent of the Internet in the village. He falls in love – for the first time and deeply – with the silent video chat girl. Upon learning that she lives in Detroit, Lyoshka decides on the most desperate act in his life.

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.

Hekule, the King of Kuvukiland, is given a gemstone by the dying Kunji Balanadin. The stone is cursed and causes Hekule to become possessed by the spirit of the mischievous Kunji. It is up Mr. Bones, the royal witch doctor to cure his King and get rid of this cursed stone by returning the gem to its home in an Indian fishing village.

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