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Nature Healing
Stories of land, seasons, gardens, and finding a slower way to live again.
A curated selection of nature-centered healing films about countryside life, seasons, gardens, open landscapes, and the quiet rhythm of starting over.
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Curator's Note
In these films, nature is not just a beautiful backdrop, but a quiet force that helps life find its shape again. Some characters return to the countryside, while others move through forests, gardens, islands, lakesides, or open roads, gradually rebuilding their relationship with themselves, with others, and with time.
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Summer fields, seasonal harvests, and solitary routines help life find its own rhythm again after leaving the city.
Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer's rain and humidity, bakes her own bread, grows hothouse tomatoes and tills the fields. During autumn, the time for pickling and preserving fish and sweet potatoes, Ichiko begins reaping rice and recalls her departure five years before.
Between winter snow and spring growth, the passing seasons become more than scenery: they become a slow way of repairing life.
A city boy enters the world of forestry, gradually being reshaped by mountain labor, village rituals, and life close to nature.
A city boy enters the world of forestry, gradually being reshaped by mountain labor, village rituals, and life close to nature.
Island mornings, breakfast, walks, and unstructured time open up the possibility of living with ease again.
Sea breezes in Kamakura, plum wine, and the everyday life of four sisters allow family bonds to soften and grow over time.
Renovating a house under the Tuscan sun, the landscape becomes a gentle force for rebuilding life from the ground up.
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.
A hidden garden slowly brought back to life also reawakens the loneliness, imagination, and vitality inside the children who find it.
Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.
A floating temple and the cycle of seasons shape a meditative journey through desire, remorse, and renewal.
A garden, loneliness, and unexpected neighborly bonds gently help a closed-off person learn how to live with the world again.
A zoo becomes a place where family grief, animal care, and the courage to begin again slowly come together.
A summer journey through rural landscapes turns an awkward companionship into a gently glowing childhood memory.
A lakeside summer frames aging, family tension, and reconciliation, allowing relationships to soften in the presence of nature.
A long wilderness hike becomes not an escape, but a way of facing grief, wounds, and the self with new honesty.
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Travel, landscape, food, and bodily experience form a path of self-renewal, adding a broader starting-over angle to the collection.
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, The Great Passage. In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is overwhelmed with problems.
Rivers, fly fishing, and family memory turn nature into a witness to time, love, and lingering regret.