The Shepherdess of the Glaciers (France/India)

(74 min; 2015; HD; English subtitles)

Directors: Stanzin Dorjai Gya & Christiane Mordelet

 

Recipient of the Grand Jury Prize, Banff Mountain and Book Festival 2016

 

Living 5,000 metres above sea level with her 300 goats, Tsering is one of the last shepherdesses in the far northern mountains of Ladakh, India. As she leads her flock of 300 sheep and Pashmina goats to graze on the 5500m high Himalayan Plateaus in a dry and desolate landscape, Tsering is under the continuous threat of wolves and snow leopards. 

 

Documented by her brother over four seasons, the film depicts both her world of icy loneliness and that unbreakable bond between humans and animals