Chloé Zhao’s (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) lyrical, mythic portrait—which has won awards all around the festival circuit—is the story of Brady (Brady Jandreau), a rising rodeo champ who suffers a near-fatal head injury. Told he cannot ride again, the young cowboy undertakes a search for a new identity that becomes nothing less than an investigation into what it means to be a man in the heartland of America. Heartrending and intimate, the film feels unusually authentic, in great part because Jandreau is a real former cowboy who underwent a similar injury, and the film features many of his own family and friends playing themselves.

Read more about the film in a blog post from JBFC Director of Programming Brian Ackerman