The Riders Of The Sahara - English Full Documentary
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- For the people of the Sahara, owning a horse is a mark of status, a great pride. In villages of the dry savannah, children are taught to ride horses very young. They live a free and exciting cow boy life, watching after the family’s herd. This is the case of Hisseini, 11, who is soon to participate his first Grand Fantasia, a ritual horse race in which he will represent his village. But Hisseini has no one to train him.
At the cattle market, Hisseini meets Stephanie, a French woman who manages an equestrian club. He makes friend with her right-hand man Abakar. Abakar agrees to help Hisseini and introduces him to the white man’s way of riding horses. Hisseini also meets Estelle, a 12 year old French girl, getting ready for her first jumping competition with Stephanie. In a nearby town, Moussa is working as a stable boy for Atanase, a Greek man who has trained horses and jockeys in Africa for over 20 years. Moussa dreams to become a jockey like his brother Adoum. Adoum is to run for the Ramadan competition in the town’s central square. In that race, most jockeys ride barefoot, with no saddle nor stirrups.
The big day has arrived for Estelle, Adoum and Hisseini. They have to prove to their family that they are seasoned riders of the Sahara.
Director: Eric Elléna
Producers: French Connection Films, Equidia, TV10 Angers
Year: 2004
Length: 52 minutes
Languages: English -
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these my people they are baggara from their dialect i am sudanese and we share same blood and culture thank you for sharing this nice video
Am I the only one who sees the abuse I don't care if it is tradition whipping a horse on the head is wrong.
None of these horses looked comfortable nor happy. A lot of face pulling and very skinny with a lot of demand from the human and to top it off very hot weather. Unfortunately, what to these people know. Everything is so brutal.
Warriors of Sahel, we share the same ancestors. So it's no wonder why I love horses.
Nice to see their culture of horses being maintained. God bless them all.
They are one of the best 💜 animals of the world 🌎!
Poor horses, all under weight, skinny. And the tack looks incredibly uncomfortable.
The horses are very beautiful and clever animals!
The toubou people of chad originated from Somalis, especially the ancient Dir clan family...they even carry the same y DNA haplogroup T-m184 which reaches the highest frequency globally in ethnic Somalis from the Dir clan, in Djibouti Somalia and Ogaden region, we Somalis consider the tobou people to ethnic Somalis who left the horn and migrated into Chad a long time ago
Absolutely disgusting the way they treat their horses! They know why they cut out the bits.
Such a beautiful presentation. I thoroughly enjoyed watching this and these amazing people and their horses. Horses that can herd and also be qualified 🏇 race horses.
Love only goes as far as their money and knowledge will allow, sadly.
Simply MAJESTIC!!!
Wonderfully educational documentary ❤ Great to learn about other cultures and customs.
This place is really beautiful
so beautiful amazing and nice,,, I love it all,, I will be there soon as I make enough money
I realy impressed thise documentary
I have watched this documentary 5-6 times. After 4-5 months. i don’t know why
Amazing
Que pessoas bonitas!