crime/investigation, social commentary, community, animal
In the French countryside, farmers and hunters are at war. Wild boars – too big and too many – are ravaging the crops. Brun, a grain farmer pushed to the brink, snaps and then vanishes. A year later, Fulda, a volatile cop, and Stéphane, a psychologist barely holding it together, start digging. What they uncover is bigger than any- thing they could have imagined. And so is what emerges between them.
After studying at the École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel in Toulouse, Sarah Arnold directed her first short film, Leçon de ténèbres (2010), which won the jury award at the Turin Film Festival. She followed it with Totems (2014), selected at the Locarno Film Festival where it received the Pardino d'Oro. Her film L'Effort commercial, pre-sented in Clermont-Ferrand, won the France TV Award for Best Short Film in 2021.
