Sweetgrass

Running time: 101 mins

?The best American film of the year is about?.sheep!? - Jay Kuehner (Cinema Scope)

For over a hundred years, sheep in western Montana have summered in the Beartooth Mountains. But now, this is ending. From its unforgettable opening shots, sheep ?aren?t just in the landscape, they are the landscape, an epic column covering entire valleys and mountainsides like abstract patterns on a vast canvas.? (Screen Daily). With its rich cinematic palette, use of natural sounds, self-deprecatory cowboy humor (including some incredibly unabashed invective), and the ever-present murmur of bleating sheep, this unsentimental elegy to the American West ?depicts the twilight of a defining chapter in the history of the American West, the dying world of Western herders.? (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, film?s director)

Described variously as ?monumental, an anthropological work of art,? ?starkly beautiful? and ?a one-of-a-kind experience? by critics, this is truly one of the gems of this year?s festival.

- Charlie Cockey