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Shepherds

film type documentary film Production Country Germany, France, South Africa production year 2020 runtime 27'00 colour
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages Sotho Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages Sotho Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

SHEPHERDS demonstrates how cattle are constitutive for the entirety of social life in Lesotho. The film was shot in a prison where cattle thieves are imprisoned. They talk about their lives and why they were incarcerated. For every stolen cow they face one year in prison.

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director Teboho Edkins Schnitt / Editing Cédric Le Floc'h Bildgestaltung / DOP Samuel Lahu Produktion / Production Don Edkins Drehbuch / Script Teboho Edkins Tongestaltung / Sound Design Julian Cropp
Festivals
2020 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany (Erster Preis der Jury des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW; Preis der Ökumenischen Jury)
2020 Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2020 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Production
  • Day Zero Film UG
  • Teboho Edkins
  • Reichenberger Str. 88
  • 10999 Berlin
Distribution
  • Day Zero Film UG
  • Teboho Edkins
  • Reichenberger Str. 88
  • 10999 Berlin
Sales
  • Day Zero Film UG
  • Teboho Edkins
  • Reichenberger Str. 88
  • 10999 Berlin

Teboho Edkins

Born 1980 in Tennessee, USA;
grew up in Lesotho, southern Africa;
lives and works in Cape Town and Berlin

Filmography
2004 Ask Me I'm Positive
2005 Looking Good
2005 True Love
2006 Gangster Project 1
2008 Kinshasa 2.0
2011 Thato
2011 Gangster Project
2013 Gangster Backstage
2015 Coming of Age
2016 Initiation
2017 I am Sheriff
2020 Days of Cannibalism