Small town

The lovingly told story of a grandfather and his grandson who want to bring the magic of the movies to their home village.

When Victor returns to his Bulgarian home village, a summer romance blossoms between two young men from different worlds.

To protect their gay son, a family moves to the countryside, but there they are confronted with conservatism, religion and folkloric superstition.

Margarita wanders through North Tyrol at dusk, observing the lives of others through windows – a game of imitation and longing.

Benny, a college freshman at Ohio's Akron University falls in love with fellow freshman Christopher at a football game.

When the urge for self-realization meets vacancy, worlds are created on a small scale.

A sensitive story that uses stop-motion and modern animation to create a magical world of self-discovery.

A young woman's return to her homeland reveals a dark story from the past involving guilt, trauma and revenge.

In the mountain village of Kumru, a whistled language is a central part of communication. However, Berat cannot whistle.

László reluctantly stands as a candidate for mayor to prevent his village in Brandenburg from sinking into the right-wing swamp.

A moving journey through a landscape and its history: from the border triangle of Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic up to the Oderhaff.

The Sutter family can no longer earn a living from their Swiss mountain farm in the 1970s. A family catastrophe is brewing.

A love letter to the unique magic of solo traveling.

In a snowy Turkish village, a nurse faces a web of power, mystery, and suspicion, where a missing man and rumored bears blur reality.

Set in a remote village, Dog and Mirales face a test with the arrival of a young woman, who shatters the monotony of their lives.

Under the crushing emotional burden of his terminally ill father and violent brother, 14-year-old Daniel seeks refuge with two outcasts.

Hometowns, neighborhoods, community spirit, energy security and a lot of money are at stake here.

A gang of five teenage girls in a small American town make a pact to live by their own rules and become the Foxfire gang.

A crazy anthology from Yakutia consisting of seven funny, dramatic and complex stories about the relationships of families, neighbors and relatives.

This black and white film portrays the life and stories of a village on the Russian-Ukrainian border, combining elements of fiction and documentary.

Incredibly close and emotional, the film tells the stories of emancipation, love and struggle within a Turkish family.

Heartwarming doc about the transformative experience of an all-woman theater group touring rural Turkey performing Shakespeare’s King Lear.

The powerful and inspiring story of a transgender teenager and his family in Orbán's Hungary.

Quiet drama about the Russian soul, corruption and the postman from Lake Kenozero in northern Russia.

Soviet heroine Polina Schneider gathers a group of avant-garde artists to convert the remote pagan tribes of Siberia to communism.

Elza lives in a small town on the Caspian Sea. While her husband catches fish illegally, she dreams of breaking out of her small world.

In a small German town, local journalist Eric investigates the drug scene on his own initiative and at great personal risk.

Anna Jadowska's fifth feature film illustrates the inner struggle of a woman who comes into conflict with patriarchal power structures.

A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year

This German indie film is a satirical declaration of love for the German small-town crime thriller.

A dairy farmer and his sister, who is a veterinarian, get into a conflict over how to deal with a dangerous cattle disease.

To pay for his children's education, Sierra Leonean farmer Alimamy is taking a gamble: he wants to sell the entire cassava harvest at the next market.

Based on his origins and personal background, director Sobo Swobodnik analyzes the social fabric of society and the German education system.

A young Italian student of agriculture wants to save her family's olive trees from pollution, parasite infestation, and corruption.

A grieving teenage girl is drawn to the young man blamed for her brother's death.

The strange loner Amador was blamed for a devastating forest fire. After serving his prison sentence, he is now no longer welcome in his village.

A reactor safety engineer follows the trail of his disappearing daughter through the Kafkaesque West German province.

In the meditative quiet of a small Chinese village, 12-year-old Xiaoxian experiences three deaths and two births in seven days.

Growing up in a rural idyll on his father's farm, teenager Johannes searches for his place in life.

This impressive debut from Dutch filmmaker Rosanne Pel examines manipulative sexual abuse among teenagers from the perpetrator’s point of view.

Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, Philophobia by Guy Davies takes a fresh look at the high school film genre.

To convince an investor to build a factory in their remote village in northern Canada, the villagers first have to find a company doctor.

Germany's only trans* pastor.

In the summer of 2017, 6,000 neo-Nazis from all over Europe gathered in Themar for the largest right-wing rock concert of the German post war era.

Buddhist noir: In Buthan the undercover police officer Kinley investigates the disappearance of a Buddhist abbess, who is known as "the demon".

From crowded Berlin to the Uckermark: A family documents the self-experiment on the "post-capitalist individual" itself.

On the picturesque shores of Lake Prespa, in the tri-border area of Albania, northern Macedonia and Greece, drug smugglers fight for supremacy.

Accompany young politicians on their way into the tough world of politics.

Lost in the German province and searching for stability, 5 young people find each other and live by their own rules.

A brutal sex crime reveals the monstrous nature of humans, while a police officer must preserve his humanity.

In a quest to find the sound of the German homelands (“Heimat”), a musician from New Zealand crisscrosses the country.

After his father’s sudden death, Iddrisu, a talented medical student, returns to his home village of northern Ghana.

A disillusioned reporter and an idealistic young pastor, fight to free a girl accused of witchcraft from the clutches of a superstitious village in the ...

England, 1959. A woman decides to open a bookshop, despite protests from the local population.

Atmospheric Kenyan drama about Kaleche, who wakes up in a village of the dead.

During the melon harvest in the rolling green hills of Moldova, 15-year-old Anishoara experiences the overwhelming feeling of first love.

Two bored teenage girls go on a rampage through their home village. Will their friendship survive this day?

Early one summer morning a man, with a secret stashed away in a duffel bag, emerges from the forest. In a nearby village he asks around for work.

In 2014 a small group of Eritrean refugees are "stranded" in Strackholt amidst the East Frisian emptiness.

With the onset of the mountain winter, Albert has to decide between preserving old ways of life on the mountain or new perspectives in the valley.

A German Mumblecore mystery and pyschodrama about two couples, a polyamorous relationship, and nightmarish reality shifts.

Heinz and Fred have created their own strange world in the province of Saxony-Anhalt - a documentary about loss, time and the value of work.

This documentary observes the struggle of three men against their heroin addiction.

This Chinese comedy sheds light on village life and the social changes that Chinese society is undergoing.

Local politicians are the spearhead of democracy. But what if they need help themselves?

A firebug is wreaking havoc in a small Norwegian community - the culprit must come from among them.

15 years ago off the coast of Windholm the sea disappeared and with it, all the children. Since then, the losses hang like a curse over the region.

In this quiet comedy in the style of Wes Anderson, a 15-year-old Welshman navigates the shoals of first love like a sailor through reefs.

Grandma Lulu has died. Her things are distributed, the bedroom is painted. A survey of family closeness and distance.

In this celebration of childhood, a 10-year-old girl struggles to find her place in a 'boys' world.

Just like Lützerath, Erkelenz and Hambach, the village in this film has to make way for open-cast mining. But one man refuses to leave.

During WWI the war reaches a small village and changes the fate of an older woman and her 12 year old friend.

A love story about two troubled souls from a small town in northern Nevada. CHANCES won the Golden Reel Award.

The Blood Ride in the Upper Swabian Weingarten is considered the largest equestrian procession in Europe and was first mentioned in writing in 1529.