Félix, a young, melancholic and secretive shepherd, leads a surprisingly timeless life. He lives alone and works along his father to raise the family herd. From autumn to spring, he looks after his animals, feeds them and keeps them in the dense forests of holm oaks of French Pre-Alps. In the summer, he travels on foot for more than two hundred kilometres, leaving his father to lead the herd to the mountains pastures, in the High Alps Ubaye valley. There, he lives far from everything for many long months, in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Against the tide of his time, Félix has chosen a profession that isolates him and keeps him out of the world. Still, he accepts the company of a curious filmmaker, as he tries to understand what this loneliness is made of. Α melancholic ode that ponders upon the phrase homo homini lupus, only to conclude that a human can also become a lamb that takes away the sins of this world.
A Shepherd
Un pasteur
26th TIDF: International Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
Available at the Agora Market TIDF26. |
- Direction: Louis Hanquet
- Script: Louis Hanquet
- Cinematography: Louis Hanquet
- Editing: Tania Goldenberg, Agathe Hervieu
- Sound: Elton Rabineau
- Music: Julien Ribot
- Production: Little Big Story
- Producers: Valérie Montmartin
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: France
- Production Year: 2024
- Duration: 71'
- Contact: Andanafilms
- Awards/Distinctions: Grand Prix (National Competition) – FIPA DOC 2024
Louis Hanquet
Filmography
2024 A Shepherd