In a quiet, isolated village in old Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays intact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders...

"Nothing ever happens in tiny Irish towns like Duneen -- until one day human remains are found buried at a farm there. Jolted out of his mundane routine, police sergeant PJ Collins has a genuine crime to solve for the first time ever. Rumors run wild that the bones are those of Tommy Burke, a local lothario who disappeared 20 years ago on his wedding day. Soon DI Linus Dunne arrives to help run the inquiry, but he and PJ struggle to find common ground....

Martin Ward is a fisherman without a boat. His brother, Steven, has re-purposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between them. When Martin tries to restore the family to their traditional place, tragedy strikes.

The Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event. Once there, they find the expected delegation is not there to meet them. Arrangements to get to their destination of Petah Tiqva have not been taken care of either. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning's bus, the band, lead by the repressed Tawfiq Zacharaya, gets help from the worldly...

Ça Twiste à Poponguine is perhaps the most charming, fast-paced and accessible film in our Library of African Cinema collection. This bittersweet, coming of age story is a kind of African equivalent of George Lucas' American Graffiti, Spike Lee's Crooklyn or Godard's Masculin/Feminin. These Senegalese teenagers living it up on the beach may also remind less discriminating viewers of Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon in Beach Blanket Bingo! Director...

From India: Aamakaar tells the story of preservation. A people of a village in North Kerala fight to preserve their village, and their livelihoods, threatened by sand mining on their estuary.

"First-time feature director Lance Oppenheim cracks the manicured facade of The Villages, America's largest retirement community -- a massive, self-contained utopia located in Central Florida. Behind the gates of this palm tree-lined fantasyland, [it] invests in the dreams and desires of a small group of Villages residents, and one interloper, who are unable to find happiness within the community's pre-packaged paradise. With strikingly composed cinematography,...

A local priest of a Latin American fishing village is recovering from a tsunami that washed away dozens of elementary school students. Ten years later, one of the young villagers miraculously comes back to life, and the whole town wonders if he is a sign from God.

The magnificent seven (1960 ; 128 min.): "Merciless Calvera and his band of ruthless outlaws are terrorizing a poor Mexican village, and even the bravest lawmen can't stop them. Desperate, the locals hire Chris Adams and six other gunfighters to defend them. With time running out before Calvera's next raid, the heroic seven must prepare the villagers for battle and help them find the courage to take back their town -- or die trying"--Container. The...

Features the first season of the television program about a New York doctor practicing in an isolated Alaskan town.