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"Agriculture" is a 1955 short documentary film co-directed by Paul Zils and Fali Bilimoria. The film focuses on agricultural practices in India during the mid-20th century, highlighting traditional farming methods and the challenges faced by farmers. It also explores the impact of modernization and government initiatives aimed at improving agricultural productivity. The documentary provides insights into the socio-economic conditions of rural India and the efforts to enhance food production post-independence.

Inside the agricultural system and the challenge to increase access of healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables to all Americans.

Two filmmakers take on a journey to explore the intricacies of the long-suffering Philippine agriculture, seeking for possible solutions as they figure out the factors causing the crisis.

Farmer John Peterson returns to talk about Angelic Organics farm and its connection to the arts and Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy.

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In this new FoodUnfolded documentary, science journalist Silvia Lazzaris takes us on a journey around the world to find out. From Ernst Gotsch’s lush syntropic farm in Bahia, Brazil—where once-barren land has been transformed into a thriving ecosystem—to Juntos Farm in Ibiza, where regenerative farming is strengthening communities, viewers will see the movement in action. But we don’t stop there––Silvia dives deeper, speaking with leading soil health and agroecology experts to examine if and how regenerative agriculture can truly deliver on its promises. Farming, Redefined is a groundbreaking documentary that invites you to imagine a future for agriculture grounded in restoration, education, and a healthier planet for generations to come.

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This short film introduces the strain under which Palestinian farmers continue to live in the Jordan Valley. Water shortages prevent farmers from growing productive crops, while right next door the Israeli water company Mekorot pumps millions of gallons from the ground in order to supply water to illegal settlements. Palestinians have systematically been denied their right to dig wells or build water infrastruture since 1967, when the Israeli army completed its occupation of all of historic Palestine. No Palestinian has received a permit to build a water structure since 1967, and “illegal” water infrastructure is routinely demolished.

Satisfying one’s hunger is a primal act that most Westerners never connect to global issues. But the diets and farming systems of wealthy countries can be directly linked to starvation in the underdeveloped world. This program sheds light on the international tragedy of hunger and malnutrition, emphasizing that the problem is one of distribution, not production. Filmed in Asia, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa, the film shows how geopolitics, economic isolation, regional conflicts, and lack of infrastructure render poor countries unable to feed their own people. Biotechnology, land use priorities, government corruption, the fast-food industry, and the vicious cycle of child hunger are all featured topics.

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A documentary about Danish agriculture.

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Industrial agriculture ensures our food supply and has made vegetables, fruit and meat cheaper. However, its negative consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. For one year, the documentary accompanies farmers who are looking for alternatives to industrial agriculture. And it asks what role we consumers and EU subsidies play in this.

Drought, heat or heavy rain – extreme weather is increasingly leading to crop losses. If the forecasts are to be followed, climate change will threaten our food supply in the near future. Agriculture must react and adapt in the long term. Innovative solutions are needed, from exotic varieties and cultivation methods to new genetic engineering processes.

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.

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.

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

A well-educated youngster drops his plans of settling down in the US to develop agriculture in his village, but faces threat from many people.

In Lopera (Jaén), the ecological transition has turned into a nightmare: centuries-old olive groves are being uprooted to make way for massive photovoltaic plants, in an unfair battle between powerful corporations and the local community. Through firsthand testimonies, striking visuals, and an analysis of the current energy model, Forced Renewables reveals how progress, when poorly planned and disconnected from rural life, can lead to an unprecedented ecological, social, and economic disaster.

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

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A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Mark Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company’s multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion.

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.

Agricultural officer Sachithanandan and his wife Shyama's life changes after his friend Jose visits to stay with them for few days.

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.

A rich farmer named Kamala Kannan, and chronicles the changes in his world following the arrival of Bharathi, a newly appointed bank manager in the village.

A short documentary film that showcases Hackney City Farm in East London.

Shot in Southern England over the course of six weeks by a crew of three American filmmakers, CircleSpeak offers a nuanced look at the passions and beliefs of the people immersed in the crop circle phenomenon during the season of 2001. This feature-length documentary presents interviews with serious “researchers”, self-proclaimed “hoaxers”, local farmers and villagers who are all, in one way or another, involved in this strange and compelling summer spectacle taking place year after year.

A young French woman inherits her uncle's property in Algeria, and finds herself plotted against by her envious cousins, but also romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man from a neighbouring farm.

Before we run out of gasoline, we will no longer have phosphorus for industrial agriculture. No fertilizer, no harvest! And in 300 years, humanity will be history...

How did it come about that we no longer see living beings in farm animals, but objects? Every year, 70 billion farm animals are slaughtered for consumption around the world. 80 percent are kept on large farms. They live crammed together in overcrowded stables, are fattened and finally slaughtered without ever having been in nature. In less than two generations, intensive husbandry has become established worldwide. Researches in Poland, the USA, Germany and Vietnam gets to the bottom of the system and those responsible. The meat industry is subsidized by the state. Corporations, governments and consumers tacitly support a deregulated and dehumanized economic system that makes unlimited consumption of animal products the norm - and with it, animal cruelty. The documentary film describes the triumph of industrial agriculture, in which the animal has to endure unimaginable suffering, becomes a commodity, a raw material that is always available and can be slaughtered and processed at will.

Twenty-year-old Anaïs works with her father on a farm that is struggling to keep operating. When their fertilizer distribution machine, borrowed from the farming cooperative, is stolen, Anaïs reacts, and fights in order to continue working, and to keep her father, on the brink of giving up and selling their farm, afloat. She also grows closer with a seasonal worker who she suspects is behind the robbery.

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

Adapted from famous French actor Philippe Torreton’s best-seller, GRANDMA is the portrait of the actor’s grandmother: a modest, unique but universal Norman peasant. Enriched with amateur films, nourished by major historical events, GRANDMA also tells the story of the end of a world, that of the countryside of our grandmothers, before the abyss of modernity.

US Dept of Agriculture film that shows how cane sugar is harvested and processed for sale.