Juste avant l'explosion de la planète Krypton, Jor-El décide de sauver son fils en l'envoyant sur Terre. Le nourrisson est recueilli par le couple Kent qui décide de l'élever comme leur propre fils. L'enfant se met à développer des pouvoirs hors du commun. Une fois adulte, Clark Kent, reporter au Daily Planet, souhaite mener une vie normale. Il ne renie pas pour autant ses capacités à sauver le monde et devient alors Superman : super-héros volant au secours de la veuve et de l'orphelin, attisant la jalousie de Lex Luthor et l'intérêt de sa collègue Loïs Lane.
Un stratège chevronné du Parti démocrate américain aide un ex-vétéran de l'armée à devenir maire d'une petite ville conservatrice du Midwest. Il attire sans le vouloir l'attention du Parti républicain, qui décide alors de lui mettre des bâtons dans les roues.
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.
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.
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.
Pierre a 25 ans quand il rentre du Wyoming pour retrouver Claire sa fiancée et reprendre la ferme familiale. Vingt ans plus tard, l'exploitation s’est agrandie, la famille aussi. C’est le temps des jours heureux, du moins au début… Les dettes s’accumulent et Pierre s’épuise au travail. Malgré l’amour de sa femme et ses enfants, il sombre peu à peu…
Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.
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.
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.
Pedro, who is having a tough time, receives the news that his grandfather died. He inherits 2 cows and a donkey. He and his uncle go to the village where his grandfather lived. But this journey will end up as they never expected.
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.
Amador Coro a été condamné pour avoir provoqué un incendie. Lorsqu’il sort de prison, personne ne l’attend. Il retourne dans son village niché dans les montagnes de la Galice où vivent sa mère, Benedicta, et leurs trois vaches. Leurs vies s’écoulent, au rythme apaisé de la nature. Jusqu’au jour où un feu vient à dévaster la région.
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.
Shortly before leaving his small town to go to the big city to study, young Daniel recalls his childhood, surrounded by family and friends.
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.
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.
During the socialist government of Marmaduke Grove in 1932, a group of villagers decide to take some land in the area of Palmilla. Almost like a mythical journey, problems arise when seated and in a position to bring the socialist ideal in the population. Everything becomes more complicated with rumors that the reactionary forces have overthrown the socialist government. A movie that because of the coup was not released in Chile and was only terminated by Littin in exile in Mexico.
A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.
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.
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.