Presented by VTIFF
Venue Host: Main Street Landing
Written & Directed by Ivo Marloh
USA | 2017 | Documentary | 89 mins
Director Marloh in attendance for Q&A with Jay Craven and for a meet-and-greet at the Lake Lobby reception after the screening. Reception 6:30 – 7:30, pizzas from Pizzeria Verita, cash bar from Shelburne Vineyard and Woodchuck Cider
Note: The reception is followed by the 2nd Best of MNFF screening: Dateline-Saigon.
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. Director Marloh rode the race twice to embed himself in the individual stories of the riders in one of the last true wildernesses on earth.
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.
