A movie about wind and change. On the Western Isles off shore of Scotland’s Northwestern coast. 5.000 people live on North and South Uist, Benbecula and Barra. Isolation, depopulation, idyll, home. The islands are not – and have never been – a place where time stood still. People, who arrive, leave, or have always been there, show us what it means to live on a remote island. They are well aware of the world with its thousands of prospects, but outside their front door just exists the vastness of the Atlantic Sea. A splendid view with only little perspective. For some it’s a paradise, others turn their back on the islands. Still others simply don’t know anything else. Stories about rural life, that so many dream of, though it seems to be all but a dream.


Premiere: May 8th 2009 at the DokFest Munich...

Title:	Tropic of Sheep
Genre:	Documentary film
Length:	74 min.
Format:	16:9, DigiBeta & S16mm, Color
Language:	English
Production Company:	FR ENTERTAINMENT commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk and Telepool
World Sales:	Telepool
Producers:	Florian Reimann Susann Funke
Director:	Ralf Bücheler
Written by:	Ralf Bücheler
Director of Photography:	Stefan Linn
Editors BR:	Hubert von Spreti Sonja Scheider Natalie Lambsdorff
Telepool:	Dr. Thomas Weymar Monika Lobkowicz Amelie von Kienlin
Sound Recordists:	Konstantin Kirilow Stephan Hilpert
Editing:	Ralf Bücheler
	and many more...