
When Glaciers Go
When Glaciers Go
USA/ Nepal
2020
16 min
USA/ Nepal
2020
16 min
Dhey is a remote village in the Mustang region of Nepal that is on the frontline of our planet’s changing climate, with shortages of glacial water forcing a local family and neighbors from their homes. Charting a course for future generations, the Gurung family splits ways. The younger generation moves to a new village, leaving behind traditional agriculture practices to grow apples as a cash crop to sell on the global market. The community has risked everything, hoping the apples will thrive. During one of the early apple harvests the Gurungs keep a foot in both worlds, committed to maintaining tradition and family despite the demands of their strange new world. The film is an intimate portrait documenting the family’s efforts to find balance in a changing environment.
Dhey is a remote village in the Mustang region of Nepal that is on the frontline of our planet’s changing climate, with shortages of glacial water forcing a local family and neighbors from their homes. Charting a course for future generations, the Gurung family splits ways. The younger generation moves to a new village, leaving behind traditional agriculture practices to grow apples as a cash crop to sell on the global market. The community has risked everything, hoping the apples will thrive. During one of the early apple harvests the Gurungs keep a foot in both worlds, committed to maintaining tradition and family despite the demands of their strange new world. The film is an intimate portrait documenting the family’s efforts to find balance in a changing environment.
Original Language
Lowa (Mustang)/ Nepali
Direction
Corey Robinson
Camera
Corey Robinson/ Tashi Bista/ Cameron Kruse
Editing
Tyler Osborne
Sound
Cleod9 Music/ Scotty Beam
Script
Tashi Bista
Producer
Tashi Bista/ Cameron Kruse