Un pasteur
Un pasteur
Louis Hanquet
France / 2024 / 71' / Italian premiere
Un pasteur
Louis Hanquet
France / 2024 / 71' / Italian premiere

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 kilometers, leaving his father to lead the herd to the mountain’s 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.

Language: French

Subtitles: Italian

Director

Louis Hanquet

Louis Hanquet grew up between Paris and the South-West of France. After studying in Buenos Aires and in Paris, he assists Sébastien Lifshitz on the shooting of his last two films. He’s the director of photography for several festival awarded documentaries. THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD is his first feature-length documentary.

Awards

Genziana d’Oro Miglior Film - Gran Premio “Città di Trento”
Ed. 2024
The film offered us a mesmerizing portrait of a young man choosing a life that left us all in admiration. The director captures moments of Felix’s life surrounded by animals, let it be dogs or sheep, he cares about with a most sensitive glance. In the grander scheme of things, A SHEPHERD calls for respect and humility in front of a community of animals, humans and nature living together in harmony.

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