In a predominantly male world like the one portrayed in Westerns, a German worker who doesn’t want to feel isolated like the rest of his fellow countrymen in the Bulgarian mountains decides to walk to the village to make friends with its inhabitants.
The German filmmaker, Valeska Grisebach, translates the cinema codes from  Westerns into the values of modern Europe. Her long film is full of elements that take us back to the Western genre: horses, foreigners, native people, rivers...However, it does differ from that genre in its portrayal of the romantic feeling of communion with nature. Grisebach had not directed a film for 11 years. And there was an obvious expectation, as her last film, Sehnsucht, left everybody waiting for more and won awards in several international festivals.
Western presents us a village, that like many other communities, shows a certain hostility toward newcomers. In spite of that, Grisebach defends small villages as places set outside the rat-race of urban life, where time has an evanescent nature and people appreciate the simple and truly important things in life. Don’t miss it!

2018 
-Adquirido pela Colecção MoMA New York
-Prémio de Cinema Alemão: 
Nomeado Melhor Filme
-Associação de Críticos Alemães de Cinema:
Melhor filme e Melhor Actor

2017
 -Festival de Cannes:
 Secção Oficial “Un Certain Regard” 
-Festival de Cinema Europeu de Sevilha:
 Prémio do Júri 
-Festival Internacional de Cinema de Mar del Plata:
 Melhor Realizador
-Art Film Festival:
 Melhor Realizador