In a mountainous region of Georgia, a dam is being built, threatening to flood the area. However, the residents of old villages, unwilling to leave their homes, are determined to protect their small homeland from mismanagement. This story is about the resilience of these people as they fight to preserve their way of life.
Temo Japaridze
Nodar Managadze
Zaza Kolelishvili
Elene Zurabishvili
Niko Akhalkatsishvili
Manana Dikhamidze
Rezo Charkhalashvili
Nana Esakia
Soso Abramishvili
In a mountainous region of Georgia, a dam is being built, threatening to flood the area. However, the residents of old villages, unwilling to leave their homes, are determined to protect their small homeland from mismanagement. This story is about the resilience of these people as they fight to preserve their way of life.
A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of a stubborn octogenarian from her home on an island in the river, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation.
Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick existence is threatened by a bank's plans to take over the land for more profitable farming.
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Danish expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
A woman embarks on a journey alone across the United States after fleeing from her violent husband.
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.