Country Auction

Auction Lot 288

2022

Having survived world wars, stock market crashes, and pandemics, the story of the 1874 bottle of Perrier-Jouët, culminates as the star of the December 2021 auction at Christie's of London.

Farmsteaders

2018

Clear-eyed and intimate, Farmsteaders follows Nick Nolan and his young family on a journey to resurrect his late grandfather’s dairy farm as agriculture moves toward large-scale farming. A study of place and persistence, Farmsteaders points an honest and tender lens at everyday life in rural America, offering an unexpected voice for a forsaken people: those who grow the food that sustains us.

Evening

1966

Slow death of Istrian towns, far from the sea and abandoned by its residents. The houses can't be sold even for peanuts.

The Grove, Texas

2014

In 1972, Moody Anderson bought a ghost town and brought it back to life. Nearly four decades later, Moody faces the heart-wrenching task of dismantling and selling his collection of Americana artifacts used in hundreds of films, from Lonesome Dove and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to the Coen Brothers' remake of True Grit.

Terra incognita

2024

Cyrille

2020

Cyrille, a young gay farmer from Auvergne, has only one friend, a homosexual like him. One day, he goes on vacation to a beach in Charente Maritime. He cannot swim and sees the sea for the first time. It was there that he met the director Rodolphe Marconi who decided to devote this sensitive and gentle portrait to him, plunging us into an agricultural world in crisis and into a life often lonely and made up of hard work rarely pays off.

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension this provides a general history of Hollywood's Golden Age and the legendary studio system.

NFT The Burnt Auction

An immersion in the 1st public auction of NFT crypto-art in France. Doubts, impediments, twists and turns... The birth of a community of artists. The 1st french NFT documentary.

Meeting Place Organic Film

2016

Local, organic, and sustainable are words we associate with food production today, but 40 years ago, when Fran and Tony McQuail started farming in Southwestern Ontario, they were barely spoken. Since 1973, the McQuails have been helping to build the organic farming community and support the next generation of organic farmers. This is a documentary about the McQuails that explores the very real ways their farm has contributed to the long term ecological viability of agriculture in Ontario. It is a call to action for all those who believe there is a better way to take care of our planet and feed the world.

Systrarna i Gallejaur

1990

Documentary about three sisters in the small village Gallejaur. They live on a farm which they run in the same way it was run in the 19th century.

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

1976

A documentary short examining the language and performance of auctioneering, filmed at the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship in Pennsylvania.

A Life on the Farm

2023

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his long-lost home movies.