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Winter Nomads

Explorers & Explorations • 1h 26m

Directed by Manuel von Sturler • Documentary • 2013 • 85 minutes

Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. Every year in November they embark on their long winter transhumance: four months during which they will have to cover 600 km in the Swiss-French region, accompanied by three donkeys, four dogs and eight hundred sheep.

"An exhilarating verite work!" -Sheri Linden, LA Tmes 

"Swiss-born director Manuel von Sturler applies a verite approach to their undertaking, gently drawing upon the rough, bucolic romance of the 'transhumance'." -Nicolas Rapold, The New York Times

Tags
agriculture, agriculture and food, anthropology, anthropology and archaeology, cultural anthropology, europe, france, icarus films, nature, observational, ovid, ranching, s_0065, s_0239, s_0339, s_0400, sheep, shepherds, switzerland, title_w, transhumance, western europe, winter nomads, world regions

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