THE SHEPHERD

UN PASTEUR

By Louis HANQUET

ANDANA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2024

In the french Alps, far from everything, Felix looks after his herd, living for months in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Solitude shrouds his days in the mountains, filled with caring for lambs, fencing and poetry.

Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2024
Best Film Award / Best Original Score
Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival 2024
Visions du Réel 2024
Trento Film Festival 2024
First Prize
DokFest Munich 2024
    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 71 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Louis HANQUET
    • Producer(s)
    • Valérie MONTMARTIN (LITTLE BIG STORY)
    • Synopsis
    • 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 bare mountains of the French Alps. In the summer, he leaves his father to lead the herd to the mountain pastures, for more than two hundred kilometres on foot. 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.