The Village Pet

Childhood 2.0

August 2020 •English

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view dangers as primarily physical and external, but they’re missing the real danger: kids spending more time online and less time engaging in real life, free play, and autonomy. What are the effects on the next generation's mental, physical, and spiritual health? Childhood was more or less unchanged for millennia, but this is Childhood 2.0.

Full Metal Village

April 2007 •German

The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe.

Čičmany

January 1975 •Slovak

The Natashquan punk

Invalid date •French

In 1976, a young punk lands in Natashquan. It’s the beginning of an unlikely love story between a small fishing community and this new arrival. Yet the relationship meets a brutal end when, three years later, the punk disappears without a trace. Forty years have now gone by, and the village of Natashquan is experiencing a slow, irreversible devitalization—one by one, villagers have been going missing. Those who tell the tale of the punk today see it as the story of a small community’s symbolic survival.

In Zainab's Heaven

December 2023 •Persian

A Hazara film director follows a gravestone maker, a water girl and a man who buried his limb, as their daily lives unfold in a graveyard.

La cité médiévale de Rocamadour

September 2020 •French

Two Forces

June 1979 •Finnish

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.

The Last Austrians

September 2020 •German

In a valley in the Ukrainian Carpathian forest lies the small and forgotten town of Königsfeld. In 1775, the Habsburg Queen, Maria Theresa, sent a hundred foresters and their families here from the Austrian west of the kingdom. All that remains today of the now over two century-old timber industry are factory ruins, potholes in the valley road and an increasingly seldom heard German dialect. Only a few factories survived a flood that cut the village off from the rest of the world, and left it economically isolated. An atmosphere of farewell hangs heavy in the air.

A Cat And Dog Life

November 1928 •

Dogs and cats go on show at two princely London venues – among them some of the fluffiest kittens London is ever likely to see.

Children in Naturism

December 2022 •English

Interviews and discussions about children in naturism.

Cat Stories

July 2019 •English

A kaleidoscopic collection of portraits of cat owners in the Netherlands

Greatham Raid!

August 2022 •English

The Village Raiders set out to raid Greatham, the most quiet and quaint place in all of Britain, hilarity issues.

Mount Olympus Raid

April 2023 •English

Village Raiders go up Mount Olympus || Gone Wrong 😱 || Gone Wild 🐺 || Gone Silly 🤡

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

April 1927 •English

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

Čičmianske tajomstvá

November 2020 •Slovak

New Hope

January 2023 •Indonesian

A short documentary around a kindergarten teacher at Kuncup Harapan, Yogyakarta.

Féria

January 1961 •French

A Sunday fair with hunger in the air, in a lost Galician village under the black umbrellas of a pitiless rain...

Γάζωρος Σερρών

September 1974 •Greek

Mrs. Iran's Husband

April 2023 •Persian

Gender apartheid is front and centre in this pointed exploration of family and labour in Iran. Sultan Mohammad proposes taking a third wife as a way to maintain and expand his free labour force, to the consternation of his current wives.

When My Knife Strikes You

January 1968 •

Shot in various villages throughout Yugoslavia, this is a disturbing document of a time when people were stabbing each other with knives without any real reason. Murderers, people who witness these murders and the families of victims all talk about the senseless violence and the human condition.