A SHEPHERD (France, 2024, 70′)

Tuesday, October 1, at 5 pm, Cinema Massimo, Screen 3

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Direction and photography: Louis Hanquet
Editing: Tania Goldenberg, Agathe Hervieu
Music: Julien Ribot
Production: Little Big Story

In the setting of the French Alps, far from everything, Felix tends his flock, living for months in an inaccessible world where an invisible entity wanders: the wolf. Loneliness envelops Felix’s days in the mountains that are filled with caring for his lambs, building fences, and poetry. The village is further down the valley. The farm is located there, the other place where this young shepherd lives and works. He stays there during the seasons in which the animals are moved to the stables and the fields; before he has to go back to the high mountains with the flock. Felix lives alone and works with his father, pursuing a radical lifestyle that runs counter to globalisation.
Directed by French documentary filmmaker Louis Hanquet, A Shepherd is a film that loves living beings, both human and animal, touches the audience’s feelings and introduces them to a job in which the contact with nature always produces new discoveries.
Awarded the Genziana d’oro as Best Picture at the 2024 Trento Film Festival.

Louis Hanquet (France) grew up between Paris and South-Western France. After his studies in Buenos Aires and Paris, he became Sébastien Lifshitz’s assistant during the shooting of Petite fille (2020) and Madame Hofmann (2023). He worked as the director of photography in many films awarded at festivals, but it’s A Shepherd his debut feature film documentary.

Filmography: A Shepherd (2024, doc).