Donkeyote Trailer (2017)

Trailer for Donkeyote.

Inseparable wanderers, Manolo and Gorrión share a dream: to travel to America and follow the Trail of Tears, the route of the Cherokee nation’s forced displacement westward in the 1800s. The only things standing in their way? Logistics. Finances. Age. One has a bum knee, the other has a fear of water. One is a septuagenarian, the other is an Andalusian donkey. The odds seem stacked against them ever getting to America from southern Spain, but odd is exactly what this pair is. Leading a forgotten way of life, sitting by fires and sleeping under stars, Manolo, Gorrión and Zafrana the German Shepherd explore the Spanish countryside on foot, at an entirely different pace from those around them. Gentle, tender and triumphant, Donkeyote shows that even in a landscape dotted with wind turbines and crisscrossed by train tracks, there’s an open road if you’re willing to take a slower route.