The Herd is a 1978 Turkish drama film, written, produced and co-directed by
Yilmaz Güney with
Zeki Ökten during Güney's second imprisonment, featuring
Tarik Akan as a peasant, forced by a local blood feud to sell his sheep in far away
Ankara. The film, which went on nationwide general release on , was screened in competition at the
30th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won Interfilm and OCIC Awards, the Locarno International Film Festival, where it won Golden Leopard and Special Mention, was scheduled to compete in the cancelled
17th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, for which it received 6 Belated Golden Oranges, including Best Film and Best Director, was awarded the BFI Sutherland Trophy and was voted one of the 10 Best Turkish Films by the Ankara Cinema Association.