Film where a drifter helps bring in the orchards

Homer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skilled, albeit unlicensed, physician. But Homer yearns for a self-chosen life outside the orphanage. What will Homer learn about life and love in the cider house? What of the destiny that Dr. Larch has planned for him?

A man known as The Drifter returns home to his cabin in the woods and winds up getting involved with an escaped convict, a gunfighter, lumber company rivals, mysterious family ties and murder.

An apple decides to break away from his life in the city and return to the orchard he came from.

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

When Los Angeles based Max Roth inherits an orchard in British Columbia, his life changes in unexpected ways.

An old farmer offers a stranded traveller the use of his tools, in return for the traveller's assurance that he will repair his cherished motorcycle, and stay away from his daughter. The arrival of the daughter, however, complicates the traveller's ability to keep both promises.

One morning, as kids are stealing apples from an old man’s orchard high above a seaside town, an earthquake hits. No one is hurt, and the townsfolk are non-plussed, but the old man is agitated: he alone is aware of the imminent tsunami and tries to warn the village. Based on a classic Japanese fable, The Orchard was made by one-man band Bob Stenhouse, who had been nominated for an Academy Award the previous decade for pioneer tale The Frog, The Dog and The Devil. Fans of the animator will recognise his lush, luminous hand-drawn style.

Harvest of orchards

The directors find that a collaboration around the orchard initiated by Bill brings up history, anger, colonial violence, and the chance to feel the closeness of a relationship.

An aging actress runs into a filmmaker late one night, after a surreal encounter at a diner, she convinces him to make a film with her over the course of this night.