All the Wild Horses
Movies in English or with English subtitles
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| Saturday, 6 April 2019 | 20:30 | La Maison du Cinéma |
Best International Feature Documentary – Galway Film Fleadh 2017
ALL THE WILD HORSES follows international riders from around the world as they compete in the Mongol Derby in Mongolia, the longest and toughest horse race on the planet.
In this race across 700 miles of Mongolian steppe the riders are on their own, navigating from horse station to horse station where they change horses every 30 miles. They have to deal with dehydration, hypothermia, exhaustion, extreme weather, swollen rivers, attacking dogs and roaming wolves.
The riders stay the nights out in the wild or with nomad families. To choose a wrong horse at a horse station could get them bucked off, losing their mount in the process, or suffer more serious injuries.
Filmmaker Ivo Marloh rides the 1000-kilometre race twice to embed himself in the individual stories and document exactly what compels riders from all around the world to risk broken bones, life-threatening injuries, or their life savings for an experience that will change their lives forever, in one of the last true wildernesses on Earth, on the back of wild horses.
*Production Countries : Ireland, Mongolia, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
View the trailerIvo Marloh
Ivo is a screenwriter, producer and director of feature drama and documentaries. With an MA in screenwriting from Royal Holloway University in London Ivo has written several feature films and worked on others in the US, Canada, Asia and Europe. His first international cinema feature Magic Boys [2012] stars Michael Madsen and Vinnie Jones, his second film Cycle [2013] won multiple awards including best feature at the Arizona Underground Film Festival. After finishing the feature Micropolis in 2014, Ivo started producing All The Wild Horses as his first feature documentary. Ivo is co-founder of production company Martilo Pictures, together with Darcia and produces his own work through 3rd-i films.