The Sheep Thief
1997
⏱️ 24 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Drama
A young boy gets caught stealing a sheep and is shaved of all his hair and branded with a mark on his forehead so that everyone will know that he is a thief and not to be trusted. Dumped in the desert, the thief covers his marking with a headscarf and goes to the nearest village where he is taken in by a trusting family in return for his work. However, has be actually changed or is he still the same thief at heart?
Crew
Director
Asif Kapadia
Writer
Asif Kapadia
Production
Channel 4 Television, Polaris Arts, Royal College of Art