The Rider

  • Archive - Festival 33
  • Director: Chloé Zhao
  • USA 2017
  • 104 minutes
  • English
  • Subtitles in Hebrew

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives for a different way of life, Brady’s sense of inadequacy mounts as he is unable to ride or rodeo – the essentials of being a cowboy. In an attempt to regain control of his own fate, Brady undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.

Filmography: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015).


  • Director Chloé Zhao
  • Production Chloé Zhao, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher
  • Script Chloé Zhao
  • Cinematography Joshua James Richards
  • Editing Alex O'Flinn
  • Music Nathan Halpern
  • Festivals Cannes (CICAE Award), Toronto, London, New York
  • Actors Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau
  • Source Lev Films and Cinemas