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The Shepherd and the Bear
The Shepherd and the Bear
The Shepherd and the Bear

The Shepherd and the Bear

$375.00


    • Directed by: Max Keegan
    • Released: 2026 (educational)
    • Year of Production: 2025
Running Time: 101 min
Language: French
Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions
Subjects: Environmental Studies
     

        

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. 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. The film was nominated for Cinema Eye Award and British Independent Film Award.

       
Official Selection at the 2025 Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Visions du Réel, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

      

"Keegan’s film restores some balance to this debate, and hopefully others, by seeding greater understanding of the humans within the ecosystems we seek to conserve. "
BFI
           

About the filmmaker 
      

Max Keegan is a filmmaker from London. His film ROGER was commissioned by the British Film Institute and BBC Four for the ‘Born Digital: Raised by The Internet’ series and won the Jury Award at Ennesimo Film Festival ‘festivalfilosofia’ and the Young Talent Award at New Renaissance Film Festival. His recent work includes series one and two of DEFENDERS OF DIGITAL, an online series for Tomorrow Unlocked which celebrates digital activists across the world. The first series reached over 20 million viewers. Max completed an undergraduate degree in Politics and Political Philosophy at University of East Anglia, for which he was awarded first-class honours. He was then accepted onto the highly prestigious Broadcast Journalism Masters at City University of London and graduated in 2019 with merit. THE SHEPHERD AND THE BEAR is Max’s feature debut.

            

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