
Amish Life
The Amish live in tight-knit rural communities across North America, keeping to horse-drawn buggies, plain dress, and farming methods that predate electricity by choice rather than circumstance. This film moves through their daily routines, from barn raisings and quilting to schooling and church services conducted in Pennsylvania Dutch, showing how the community enforces its separation from mainstream American life. It looks at the Ordnung, the unwritten set of rules each community agrees on, and at rumspringa, the period when teenagers get a taste of the outside world before deciding whether to be baptized into the church for good. Interviews and observational footage cover how families balance farm labor with faith, why some communities allow certain technologies and others forbid them, and what happens to those who choose to leave. The result is a plain, detailed look at a way of life built on deliberate limits, and at the tradeoffs those limits create between belonging and freedom.