Summer Pasture

Name: Summer Pasture
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Documentary
Released: August 15, 2011
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 73

2011

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Kham Film Project | Release Date: August 15, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: We work in Kham, the easternmost of the three traditional Tibetan provinces. Its rugged landscape spans the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Most of the Tibetans who live here are farmers and nomads, and are tied to a predominantly subsistence economy. Our current projects are focused onWe work in Kham, the easternmost of the three traditional Tibetan provinces. Its rugged landscape spans the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Most of the Tibetans who live here are farmers and nomads, and are tied to a predominantly subsistence economy. Our current projects are focused on various communities in the Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. (Kham Film Project)
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Director: Lynn True and Nelson Walker III and Tsering Perlo

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Family, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Robert Abele

Sep 15, 2011

Summer Pasture has an earthy intimacy and compassion for its subjects that will have you thinking about their plight long after they've packed up and moved on for winter. Read full review

John Anderson

Aug 10, 2011

A remarkably intimate documentary woven out of tradition and change, and the endearing subjects who contend with both. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Aug 15, 2011

For all the hardship they endure, this intimate dual portrait, directed by Lynn True and Nelson Walker, with Tsering Perlo, suggests that their lives are neither more nor less fulfilled than those of any highly stressed upper-middle-class Americans. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Aug 16, 2011

The faces of the culture - a group of nomadic Tibetans who raise yak and harvest caterpillar dung from ramshackle tents in the Chinese mountains - resist all but the most vague of ecological or political calls-to-action. Read full review

Benjamin Mercer

Aug 9, 2011

Summer Pasture is remarkable not merely for documenting the disappearing way of life, but for registering the depth of Yama and Locho's uncertainty about moving on from it. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Aug 16, 2011

The subjects - a husband and wife struggling to make ends meet, mostly for the well-being of their infant daughter - are eminently engaging. Read full review

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James9280

Aug 22, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The success of a documentary so often hinges on the choice of subjects as much as the topic, and directors Lynn True and Nelson Walker hit the jackpot with Yama, Locho and their unnamed infant daughter. While the baby girl provides the kind of chubby-cheeked adorableness to melt even the coldest heart, her parents are charming and honest characters that make yak herding in the remote sprawling steppe of China feel utterly relatable.… Expand

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