Screening: Summer Pastures

Tibetan film Summer Pastures will be screened at George Washington University on April 17, 2012.

Summer Pasture is a feature-length documentary about a young nomadic couple living with their infant daughter in the pastures of eastern Tibet. With unique access to an area seldom visited by outsiders, the film offers a rare window into a highly insular community and a sensitive portrait of a family at a time of great transition. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet -- nicknamed "Five-Most" by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote area in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, just as their ancestors have for generations. In recent years however, Dzachukha has undergone rapid development, which poses unprecedented challenges to nomadic life.

Summer Pasture evolves as an intimate exploration of Locho and Yama's personalities, relationship, and the complicated web of circumstances that surrounds them. It provides a deeply personal account of what it means to be a nomad in a swiftly modernizing world, and a universal story of family survival.

This event is only opened to students, staff and faculty of GWU only.

Please RSVP here by April 16, 2012.