Green Dox

The Land captures the cycle of the seasons in a modern rural community in Latvia. The director focuses on five families and follows them for a full year. They all have different reason for living in the countryside: some had had enough of office life and wanted to do real, tangible things, others are following in their father’s footsteps and still working with century-old machinery. While one appears to be leading a harmonious life, another is desperately taking out loan after loan—opening up a highly topical discussion about the future of agriculture. The scenes of rural life are accompanied with director's own voice-over, filled with reflections about the essence of documentary filmmaking.