Perante a iminente destruição do seu planeta, Krypton, o renomado cientista Jor-El resolve salvar o seu filho, Kal-El, enviando-o sozinho para o planeta Terra, um mundo mais primitivo, mas onde ele sabe que o filho terá poderes extraordinários e um grande futuro. Criado por um casal de lavradores com o nome Clark Kent, só na idade adulta ele descobre quem realmente é, indo para a cidade de Metrópolis em busca de emprego, e de um lugar no mundo onde colocar em uso os seus poderes incríveis.
Um consultor político transforma a corrida presidencial de uma pequena cidade num circo mediático multimilionário quando o seu candidato atrai as atenções de todo o país.
A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.
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.
Illa de Arousa, 1971. Maria is a woman who earns her living by seafood. She is also known on the island for helping other women in childbirth with special dedication and care. After an unexpected event, she is forced to flee and begins a dangerous journey that will make her fight for her survival. Seeking her freedom, Maria decides to cross the border by one of the smuggling routes between Galicia and Portugal.
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.
Elena and Ivan are getting ready to enter into a new phase in their life. They are leaving the metropolis of Barcelona to settle in the Catalan countryside, where they are taking over a cork oak plantation. Not only will the business pay for their living, but they also want to exploit the plantation equitably and sustainably. But despite their ideals, Elena and Ivan soon find themselves in a crisis which will endanger not only their project, but also their relationship.
Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the events that finally leads to the tragic shooting. As time goes by, Pasi sinks gradually deeper and deeper into the poverty, gets into trouble with both police and tax officials while family arguments grow more and more serious. Based on a true story.
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.
Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
Amador Coro foi condenado por ter provocado um incêndio. Anos mais tarde, ao sair da prisão, descobre que ninguém o aguarda. Regressa assim à sua terra natal, uma pequena aldeia escondida nas montanhas da Galiza rural, para viver com a sua mãe, Benedicta, e as suas três vacas. Os dias decorrem serenamente, seguindo o ritmo da natureza. Até certa noite em que um incêndio começa a devastar a região.
Amongst the mountains of Lesotho, an 80-year-old widow winds up her affairs and makes arrangements for her burial. But when her village is threatened with resettlement due to the construction of a reservoir, she finds a new will to live and ignites a spirit of resistance within her community.
During the last years of Franco's dictatorship, Fernando, an old republican exile, returns to his home in a small Castilian village and befriends Aurora, a young and attractive teacher.
Alentejo, Portugal, 1950. Numa região desolada, onde o vento parece falar, onde reina a miséria e a fome sobre os mais pobres, um homem desesperado vinga-se daqueles que causaram a sua ruína durante a noite mais escura, incapaz de obter honestamente o pão necessário para alimentar a sua família durante o dia.
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.
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.
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.