Country Doctor

Traces a family’s journey toward freedom, nurturing their bees and their young sons amid Georgia’s shifting seasons while they learn to care for the land that sustains them.

"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is well-respected local doctor, so many patients (most of them farmers) come to see him every day. In his small clinic, people chat with each other about their lives, local conditions, or the people they know. The clinic seems to open up like a microcosm, the information and experiences of different people intertwine, revealing the conditions of typical Chinese farmers, and the typical fates of both young and old--"

A grey-haired man walks through the fields. Fatigued, but with the same tenacity he roams the roads, the pathways, the tracks every day, medical bag in hand. Everyone awaits him: desperate or in hope, to the dying or to the woman in labour. He is the local GP. In fact, he is film director Imre Gyöngyössy’s father, the protagonist of one of his first short films. The personal narration based on the director’s poem is made complete by the pictures of Sándor Sára and István Gaál who were also active at Balázs Béla Studio at that time.

Documentary portrait of a rural Belarusian doctor.

This short focuses on the story of Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed vaccination.

A rural doctor is urgently summoned to attend to a gravely ill young boy. Grappling with the pressures of his profession and the demands of his household, he embarks on a tumultuous journey that forces him to confront the darker facets of human frailty, both physical and moral.

A doctor, who commits malpractice in a major urban hospital, retreats to a remote house in the countryside. Although he is acquitted, his conscience is not so easily appeased. When a murder occurs and the southern Styria village searches for the culprit, he has to take a stand.

Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.

Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also taken. Dillon tells Bishop that if Joe dies, he will be killed, but Bishop knows he will be either way. Joe dies, but Nora and Steve conceal it from Dillon and send a plea for help in a prescription that Bishop writes in Latin.

A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

When Selenia arrives in the small Italian village heads start turning and eyes start popping. All males in the town are falling all over themselves trying to get a look -- or a feel -- of the new doctor.

A midwife is caught in a snowstorm on the way to Anatolia and forced to spend four months in an isolated village., where she’s soon tending sick children and delivering babies.

In the dusty backwaters of Florence, Kentucky, Patrol Officer Jim Wolowitz is the last guy you’d trust with a badge and unfortunately, the only person left wearing one. When a string of increasingly bizarre crimes rocks the town—a panty theft epidemic, illegal moonshine being sold to children, and missing racehorses turning up in Chinese food—Jim is forced to unravel a tangled conspiracy involving local weirdos, an unstable sheriff, and a shadowy notebook that seems to connect it all. Soon, Jim will have to face his ultimate fear: actual police work.