Les Cowboys

Though set in rural France, the film's atmospheric opening sequence - with its cowboy hats, horses, and country music - couldn't feel more American. Old-West enthusiast Alain (François Damiens) attends a cowboy fair with his wife Nicole (Agathe Dronne), sixteen-year-old daughter Kelly (Iliana Zabeth), and younger son Kid (Finnegan Oldfield). Kelly disappears in the chaos of the festivities, and Alain's fear soon becomes disbelief when he learns that she's chosen to abandon her life and to start a new one as a Muslim. Convinced that she was coerced, Alain and his son commence a pursuit that will last sixteen years, taking them across international borders as they hunt for the missing Kelly. (Toronto International Film Festival)