Boundin' tells the story of a sheep who loses his confidence after being sheared, but learns to embrace his uniqueness with the help of a wise jackalope.
Blow Dry is a comedy movie set in a small Yorkshire town where a group of hairdressers compete in a prestigious competition. The story revolves around the relationships between the characters, including a husband and wife who are separated but forced to work together, a father and son who have a strained relationship, and a hairstylist dealing with the fallout of his wife being diagnosed with cancer. As the competition unfolds, the characters navigate their personal challenges and find unexpected connections.
Pad Na Jou Hart is a romantic adventure film set in South Africa. It tells the story of a young woman who embarks on a journey across the country to find herself and true love. Along the way, she encounters various challenges and meets interesting characters who help her discover the beauty of life and the power of love.
In a small village in Lesotho, an old woman's funeral sparks a resistance against a dam project that threatens their way of life. The community struggles to preserve their traditions and resist forced relocation as they face the loss of their homes and rural lifestyle. Amid grief, resistance, and an existential crisis, the village fights for their land and the memory of their ancestors.
The Sundowners follows the lives of a family of sheepherders in the Australian Outback as they navigate through challenges, adventures, and personal relationships. Set in the 1920s, the story explores themes of love, marriage, friendship, ambition, and family.
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
Harmony Lessons follows a 13-year-old boy who faces violence and oppression in a rural school. He grapples with the abuse from his classmates, the death of a student, and the murder of a child. As he seeks vengeance, he forms a youth gang and explores his friendship with a Muslim boy. Through torture and interrogation, he discovers his own strength and learns valuable lessons about empathy and forgiveness.
The Edge of the World is set in a remote village on the Shetland Islands in Scotland. The village faces challenges due to its shrinking population and traditional way of life. The story revolves around the conflicts between the old traditions and the modern world, as well as the struggle to adapt to changing times. The villagers must come together to overcome the obstacles they face and preserve their way of life.
Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel's parents - both refugees - found a home. This is a landscape and population that is changing rapidly as small scale agriculture is disappearing and the generation who inhabited a pre-mechanised world is dying out. Much influenced by his conversations with the writer Peter Handke, the film maker leads us on a poetic and profound journey into a world of endings and beginnings; a world of stuffed owls, sheep and fire.
Sunday Too Far Away is a drama set in the Australian Outback in the 1950s. The story revolves around a group of shearers in a rural setting and explores themes of male bonding, struggle, and awakening. The protagonist faces various challenges, including a strike, conflicts with other shearers, and personal struggles. The film captures the harsh reality of life in the Outback and the camaraderie among the shearers.
A narrator recounts a story about his missing friend, the downfall of a sheep shearing gang and sightings of a hairy beast in 1980s rural New Zealand.
In the town of Broken Hill, a young musician named Tommy dreams of escaping to the big city. He forms a band with his friends and enters a music competition, but faces obstacles along the way. With the support of his father, who is also his coach, Tommy learns valuable life lessons and finds the strength to overcome challenges.
The Pink Panther and a sheep come to live in Cattle County, Texas, and have to endure a sheep-abusing cattleman.
A whodunnit on a sheepstation.
Orla Barry is a hard-working, lipstick-wearing sheep farmer in rural Wexford. She is also a visual artist, renowned for her video and sound art. She strides confidently from art seminars to the Tullamore Show, lambing in April and shearing in June, working tirelessly to make a living from eco-farming in the face of global demand for faster, cheaper meats and wools. But while tied to the demands of the ovine calendar she must make time to let her creativity flow.
Before shearing, done with electric devices and hand shears, lambs are separated from the flock. The lambs are not yet shorn but dipped in a disinfectant, parasiticidal liquid prescribed by law. For the auction, held in autumn, the sheep for sale are loaded on special trucks and transported from the pasture to the public sale.
An original television film about a city who goes to the village for vacations and finds real friends there.
Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.
During a hot summer in rural England, a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.
In the gruelling world of competitive sheep shearing there is no women's section. Women and men compete together. She Shears is the story of passion, purpose and determination and five women for whom shearing is not just a job.