800 goats, one family, and a mountain pass that'd make your Fitbit weep.
The Aït Atta tribe of the High Atlas mountain range in Morocco preserves their ancestral right of access to the agdal, a communal land management system that dates back hundreds of years. The film follows Ben Youssef family’s arduous transhumance journey from the desert-like landscape of Nkob to the green pastures of Agdal Igourdane, throughout uneven terrain of steep climbs and descents of these High Atlas mountains. They migrate each summer with their 800 goats, donkeys, mules, camels and dogs, as they embark on this formidable journey on foot.
Cinematography
Vertigo-inducing ridgeline shots that goats navigate better than humans.
Sound
Bell symphony of 800 goats—better than most Oscar-winning scores.
Director
Inanc Tekgüc
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The agdal system predates Moroccan statehood and was recognized by UNESCO in 2011 as a 'Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System'—basically the ancestors invented sustainable land management before it was trending.
Directors Tekgüc and Tibet spent three summers embedded with the family; that goat's-eye camera rig? Custom-built after a mule kicked the first prototype into a gorge.
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