Little Forest: Summer/Autumn(2014)

Live off the land and recharge.

Little Forest: Summer/Autumn is a Japanese film following Ichiko, a woman who retreats to her rural hometown of Komori to heal from heartbreak. Across two seasons, she immerses herself in the rhythms of village life: baking bread, cultivating tomatoes in a greenhouse, and working the fields through summer's oppressive heat and rain. As autumn arrives, she turns to preserving food—pickling vegetables and fish, harvesting rice—while reflecting on the five years since she left home. The film is a quiet, meditative portrait of self-discovery through manual labor and seasonal cycles, blending slice-of-life storytelling with the textures of rural Japan.