Pascal, 53, and Carole, 28, are shepherds. In the month of November 2010, 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 a eight hundred sheep. An exceptional adventure is about to begin: they brave the cold and the bad weather day in day out. This saga reveals a tough and exacting profession requiring constant improvisation and unflinching attention to nature, the animals and the cosmos. An odyssey through a region undergoing profound changes that render this kind of expedition more difficult every year, particularly when the grass for the sheep has to be found between villas, railroad tracks and industrial areas. An eventful journey with surprise encounters, moving reunions with farmer friends, nostalgic figures of country life that is shrinking away fast. Hiver nomade is an adventure film, a contemporary road movie, a reflection of our current world, which takes us back to our roots and our inner questions.
Director
Manuel von Stürler
Born in 1968, after having studied trombone at the Academy of Music in Neuchâtel and the Jazz and Contemporary Music School in Lausanne, he performed a wide repertoire of music, from classical to jazz and contemporary. Together with Arthur Besson, he founded the DUO MATO, with the objective of concentrating on music as the central element in the narration and artistic process of theatre performance. In 2008 he began to make his first documentary “Hiver Nomade”, the world preview being screened at the 62nd Berlinale in 2012.
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