Horses
VULCANALIA
At the Bayonne Arena, the equestrian performance becomes cinema. Vulcanalia captures the fusion of fire, music, dance... and horses, in a sensory choreography where humans and animals communicate in silence.
Vulcanalia offers a unique sensory journey where equestrian performance and doc...
IN THE CLICK OF A SHUTTER
In this film we follow the photographer Malik Nejmi on a journey through the world of horse-race betting. A world with its own symbols, gestures and rituals; a world in which passion, energy and hope are concentrated in a fraction of a second, but also in seemingly endless waiting.
It’s also a road-...
PRINCE OF THE DESERT
The Arabian horse: an animal whose character has been formed under the harsh conditions of desert life and whose bloodlines can be found in almost every equine breed today. It has inspired the greatest artists. It has fascinated men. It is the only animal to have conquered the world on an artistic, ...
JAPAN: RACING FEVER
The Japanese love horse racing. Betting more than any other country, every year nearly 150,000 Japanese watch the Japan Cup, the high point of the Nipponese equestrian calendar. Through the accounts of those involved in the industry – breeders, owners, trainers, jockeys, journalists and punters – th...
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...
