Shepherds

Shepherds (Bergers, 2024) is a drama from Sophie Deraspe you can watch online on iFILM. A successful Montreal ad man walks out of his agency overnight, crosses the ocean and hires himself out to herd sheep in the mountains of Provence.

The romance of it collides fast with the work. Freezing nights spent alone, a stubborn flock, wary villagers, and labor that wrecks your back long before it brings any peace. Félix-Antoine Duval plays a man who fled the emptiness of the office only to learn you can't walk away from yourself. Along the way he meets a civil servant, played by Solène Rigot, who has thrown over her own old life just as abruptly; what draws them together isn't an idyll but a shared exhaustion with a future already mapped out for them.

Deraspe, whose award-winning Antigone reworked Greek tragedy for the modern city, turns a story about changing careers into a quiet question of what freedom actually costs. Provence here is no postcard but hard graft under open sky. A film for anyone who has ever wanted to drop everything. Stream Shepherds (2024) online on iFILM.