Synopsis
Shepherds demonstrates how cattle are constitutive for the entirety of social life in Lesotho, a small state in the middle of South Africa. Cows have deep symbolic as well as material significance and their possessions are therefore of extremely high value. The film was shot in a prison where cattle thieves are imprisoned. They talk about their lives and why they came here. For every cow stolen, they face one year in prison.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Co-production : KinoElektron
- Foreign production companies : Day Zero Film UG, Day Zero Film
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Teboho Edkins
- Director of Photography : Samuel Lahu
- Editor : Cédric Le Floc'h
- Foreign producers : Don Edkins, Teboho Edkins
- Line Producer : Teboho Edkins
- Co-producer : Janja Kralj
- Sound Editor : Johannes Tahlmayer
- Sound Mixer : Julian Cropp
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait, Video art
- Themes : Monde rural, Ethnography, Society, Jail
- Production language : Sotho
- Coproducer countries : South Africa, Germany, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (South Africa, Germany, France)
- Production year : 2020
- Runtime : 26 min 59 seconds
- Production formats : HD Cinemascope
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (2)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Germany, 2020
International Competition
Compétition nationale
Awards (1)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Germany, 2020
North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture Prize
Prix du jury œcuménique
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