Main programme  

Intimate portrait of a Christian family in rural Texas. She has been brought up in a deeply religious family of 14 goat herders. He comes from a less dogmatic family and wants to be a rodeo rider. Their cautiously blossoming puppy love is one of pure naivety, but launches Sara into a stormy identity crisis. The ideals she has grown up with are no longer as self-evident as her Bible-quoting parents taught her. Filmed in a very realistic style with minimal fictive elements.  

Mind your heart for it is the precioust thing you have – warns the mother. But what to mind it from? In a traditional rural community a girl tries hard to understand what does it mean to live an honest adult life but her heart tickles while talking with a skinny boy, a future cowboy of Texas. Try out new paths or obey to the rules of strict upbringing? It is a film about a whirl of mind and the spirit of freedom blazing in heart. A. Z.  

Awards  

David di Donatello Award for Best Documentary (2014) Leipzig DOK Festival – Golden Dove for Best Documentary (2013) Torino International Festival of Young Cinema – Special Jury Prize (2013)  

Roberto Minervini

 After getting a degree in Media Studies from New York University and making several short films, Italian director Roberto Minervini spent almost four years on his trilogy of films about life in Texas. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Cinema History at the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.  

Filmography
 
Low Tide (2012)
The Passage (2011)