{"id":35694,"date":"2023-08-09T12:53:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/films-items\/killing-the-shepherd-by-ta-opre-united-states\/"},"modified":"2024-03-03T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T08:12:20","slug":"killing-the-shepherd-by-ta-opre-united-states","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/en\/films-items\/killing-the-shepherd-by-ta-opre-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"KILLING THE SHEPHERD BY TA OPRE (UNITED STATES)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">A remote community in Africa, led by a woman chief, attempts to break the stranglehold of absolute poverty by waging a war on wildlife poaching. For decades illegal wildlife poaching by both subsistence and bush meat gangs has led to the government declaring this community\u2019s homeland <\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">\u201cdepleted\u201d of wildlife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"font_8 wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><span class=\"wixGuard wixui-rich-text__text\">\u200b<\/span><\/span><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">The chief finds help in the form of a safari operator and they work together to bring stability to the community. But all was not well. Disease, food stability, and rampant alcoholism hamper basic needs like health care and education. Even young girls, just after reaching puberty, are sold by their parents as child brides in order to feed their family for one year. Dark forces including South African land speculators, criminal poaching gangs, and her own people conspire against the chief. 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