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  • Documentary

THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR

  • 2024
  • 1 HR, 41 min
  • MAY 1 → MAY 7, 2026
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Released 2024, United Kingdom, France, United States
Documentary
1 hour, 41 minutes
Willa Films
French French with English Subtitles
Starring

No starring credits.

Director

Max Keegan

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 ageing shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, The Shepherd and The Bear is a modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.

Content advisory: The Shepherd and The Bear includes a scene with a dead animal and other related images that may be distrurbing to some viewers.

NO SCREENINGS ON WEDNESDAY MAY 6

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Max Keegan Director

Reviews

“Max Keegan explores both sides of the debate over reintroducing wild bears to the French mountains, offering a compassionate understanding of a local shepherd’s fear for his livelihood.”

Megan Feeney
Sight & Sound

“Whichever side of the argument you instinctively find yourself on — team bear or team shepherd — the film resists snap judgments.”

Cath Clarke
Guardian

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