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  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Monument Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Monument Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
Summer Pasture

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 on v...

Directed By: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III, Tsering Perlo

  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Monument Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2011
  • Unrated
  • Monument Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Summer Pasture

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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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 on v...

Directed By: Lynn True, Nelson Walker III, Tsering Perlo

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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80
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.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW
80
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.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 10, 2011
A remarkably intimate documentary woven out of tradition and change, and the endearing subjects who contend with both.
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75
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.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
70
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.
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60
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.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Aug 15, 2011
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
Genres
Tagline In the high grasslands of Tibet, change is coming...
Website http://www.summerpasturefilm.com/
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Awards

Palm Springs International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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