THE SHEPHERD

UN PASTEUR

By Louis HANQUET

ANDANA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2024

In the High Alps, far from everything, Felix look after his herd, living for months in a mineral and inaccessible world where an invisible being prowls: the wolf. Fe´lix choose a profession that keeps him out of the world. I try to understand what his solitude is made of.

Festivals
& Awards

FIPADOC 2024
Best Film Award / Best Original Score
    • 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 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 my company, as I try to understand what this loneliness is made of.