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synopsis
Somewhere on isolated mountainous plain, Johann has taken over his father’s farm, devoting all his time and energy to his work. Surrounded by a struggling community and a natural landscape that has taught him all he knows, his heritage is his entire life. As autumn goes and winter comes, a barn burns to the ground and jeopardizes the fragile balance of the farm's survival. “A long time ago, there was a world. A world that was given to me, a world presenting itself to me, a world that provided for all my needs. [...] With this film, I want to tell the story of a man bearing on his shoulders two different heritages, one of them material, the other spiritual. Both heritages are embodied in the same elements, the same gestures and the same places, deeply rooted in the realities of the rural life that bring immense joy to Johann, but at the same time, wear him out.” (John Shank)


HIVER DERNIER, is a beautifully composed and thoughtfully paced agricultural western. French actor Vincent Rottiers gives the main protagonist, a young farmer, a sharp edge. A man of few words, he is both mysterious and rough. He attends his animals as if they were his own children but don’t ask him to be a manager. He inherited his land and métier from his father but doesn’t seem able to see that the world around him is crumbling and doesn’t know how to seize the chance of a better life. Hichame Alaouie’s magnificent photography and careful framing is an ode to nature and to farmers, today’s modern version of the Last of the Mohicans. (Agnès C. Poirier).

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