Director: Max Keegan/2024/UK,France/101mins
French with English subtitles
Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, The Shepherd and the Bear explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears in the midst of a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears.
With breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, this is a modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.
“Lyrical, visually and aurally ravishing” - Screen International
BIFA Nominee for Best Feature Documentary
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Cyfarwyddwr: Max Keegan/2024/UK,Ffrainc/101munud
Ffrangeg gyda is-deitlau Saesneg
Wedi’i osod yn uchel ym mynyddoedd mawreddog y Pyrenees yn Ffrainc, mae The Shepherd and the Bear yn archwilio gwrthdaro a ysgogwyd gan ailgyflwyno eirth brown yng nghanol cymuned fugeilio draddodiadol. Mae’r ffilm yn dilyn bugail sy’n heneiddio sy’n ei chael hi’n anodd dod o hyd i olynydd wrth i eirth ysglyfaethu ar ei braidd, a bachgen yn ei arddegau sy’n mynd yn obsesiynol am olrhain yr eirth.
Gyda sinematograffi syfrdanol ac adrodd stori trochol, mae hon yn chwedl werin fodern am draddodiad, cymuned a pherthynas dynoliaeth â byd natur sy’n cilio.
“Lyrical, visually and aurally ravishing” - Screen International
Enwebiad BIFA am y Ffilm Ddogfen Orau
