Horses
MEMORIES OF SABLE
This is the story of three women who live, or once lived, on Sable, an island in Nova Scotia. Lost in the Atlantic Ocean, it contains a lifesaving station and a population of wild horses. The accounts of three women from three different periods, 1900, 1950 and today, interweave to paint a picture of...
THE GUARDIANS OF RAPA NUI
3,700 inhabitants and almost as many horses. One more mystery for the most remote piece of land in the world. In the shadow of the famous moai of Easter Island, the animal is king. Sixteen-year-old Nico is one of the residents of this far-flung island. Between work on the family horse-breeding farm ...
BRETON DRAFT HORSES
A portrait of the Breton draft horse seen through the eyes of three generations. Once at the centre of country life, the Breton horse fell victim to mechanisation in the 1960s, its gradual disappearance coinciding with a dilution of Breton cultural identity. Over the last few years, Brittany has bee...
THE LEGEND OF THE BUTTERI
No, you’re not dreaming! The lonesome cowboy riding his trusty horse through the desert isn’t a thing of the past. And they’re not restricted to the Wild West, either. In Italy, the butteri, the cowboys of the Maremma marshes, have refused to lay down their arms in the face of mechanisation. This dw...
THE GOLESTAN HORSEMAN
Abduljabar is a jockey. He’s preparing for the big race in Tehran. He’ll be competing against the best horsemen in the land. Born into a largely unassimilated minority group in Iran, the Turkmen, he has to win the respect of his clan. More than that, he has to fight to guarantee himself a future, to...
The Most Beautiful Horses in the World, as seen by Yann Arthus Bertrand
A meeting with the internationally acclaimed photographer Yann Arthus Bertrand, during the compilation of his book “Chevaux”.
Although best known for his aerial photography, Yann Arthus-Bertrand has always had a passion for animals, from the big cats of Africa down to man’s most faithful friends, do...
