Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
Ichiko bakes a cake for an end-of-year party with her friends. In the depths of winter, making mochi and curry keeps the people of Komori warm. Later, spring brings thoughts of her absent mother as well as rice planting and sakura, and she begins to think of leaving Komori behind again.
Mark Whitacre , és un paio que passa d'intentar ascendir a la important empresa en què treballava, a denunciar pràctiques corruptes dins d'aquesta. Després d'informar l'FBI de la conspiració de la seva empresa per fixar preus multinacionals, Withacre es contempla a si mateix aclamat heroi i objecte d'una recompensa. Però abans, l'FBI necessita proves. Així que es presta amb entusiasme a portar una gravadora oculta al seu maletí, imaginant-se a si mateix com una mena d'agent secret. Desafortunadament per a l'FBI, el més difícil de la missió consistirà a saber què és veritat i què és fruit de la gran imaginació de Withacre.
A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
John "Jack" Sommersby abandona la seva plantació a Tennessee per lluitar al bàndol sudista de la Guerra de Secessió. Un cop passats sis anys sense tenir-ne cap més notícia, gairebé tots el consideren mort. La Laurel, la seva presumpta vídua, no el troba pas a faltar perquè era un individu desagradable i egoista. De sobte, en Jack torna inesperadament per a sorpresa de tothom. Però no queda res d'aquella persona menyspreable que la Laurel recordava, fins al punt que arriba a estimar-lo com mai no s'havia imaginat. És de debò en Jack o és un impostor?
Gunasingam, a family-loving farmer who hails from a small town, tries his best to keep his big family united despite him being misunderstood by many.
Charlie returns from boarding school to take care of her sick mother Laura, owner of a small organic egg farm in the New Jersey countryside. It's a struggle to look after her mom, run the farm on her own and keep up with her studies. Their day-today life on the farm, already strained by years of unspoken resentment, is turned upside down when Laura’s mother Solange shows up unannounced! Solange is an eccentric French feminist who left America many years ago. She's never had much of a relationship with her daughter. Laura's sudden illness motivates her to reconnect. But can these three women, opposite in so many ways, learn to live together? To combat the unexpected bird flu epidemic that threatens the farm, they must rise above conflict. Only love and laughter can heal old wounds and help them to accept each other's differences.
Milk is Big Business. Behind the innocent appearances of the white stuff lies a multi-billion euro industry, which perhaps isn't so innocent…
El professor Rome va treballar en el Projecte SETI, i ara es dedica a donar classes en un universitat. Un dia rep una trucada per a que es dirigeixi a unes instal·lacions que la NASA té a l'Antàrtida, a on s'hi ha trobat un objecte misteriós.
A documentary investigation of the world of French agriculture today through various testimonials. A world that manages to resist the upheavals that it faces – economic, scientific, social – and which continues, for better or for worse, to maintain the link between generations.
Sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to the chain restaurants and supermarkets where it's sold. Narrated by author and activist Eric Schlosser, the film features interviews with average Americans about their dietary habits, commentary from food experts like Michael Pollan and unsettling footage shot inside large-scale animal processing plants.
With dazzling nature photography, Academy Award®–nominated director Markus Imhoof (The Boat Is Full) takes a global examination of endangered honeybees — spanning California, Switzerland, China and Australia — more ambitious than any previous work on the topic.
Breathtaking in its subtle beauty, Harvest is an achingly romantic tale of an innocent but ever increasingly passionate affair that develops between two simple farmhands. Life on a farm is all that sullen teen Marco knows- leading a perfunctory and quiet life of working, going to school and avoiding the advances of girls. However, his self-imposed solitude ends when curly-haired Jakob, rejecting the banking world for farming, arrives to train on the farm. Although initially cautious and tentative with each other, it is soon obvious that the unspoken sexual tension is becoming increasingly hard to resist - something a spontaneous trip to Berlin. Proving that true love can blossom in even the most unlikely of places, Harvest is as rich and rewarding as it is heart-warming.
Right on our doorstep there is something that feeds us all: living soil. But this precious resource is under threat – from us humans! Our planet needs more than 2000 years to form ten centimetres of fertile soil. What does this mean for the future?
A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Plánička, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the "Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured environment". He runs into difficulty with the directorship of the JZD, but he finds them eager to help once they hear he's the son of the local agricultural commissioner, as his last name is also Plánička. Blažena Škopková is given the task of finding out how things are looking. However everything is complicated by the jealousy of Blažena's boyfriend Venca.
En Fatah és un humil camperol algerià que viu orgullós amb la seva vaca Jacqueline a la que no para d'acaronar i consentir. Encara que estima la seva dona i filla, només se sent comprès de veritat per la seva vaca. Per això, ha de patir l'escarni dels veïns. Un dia rep una invitació per viatjar amb la Jacqueline a la Fira de l'Agricultura de París.
Bhoominathan, a NASA scientist, returns to his drought-affected village in Tamil Nadu and decides to fight against the evil corporates and corrupt politicians responsible for the plight of his people.