When Glaciers Go

Film

When Glaciers Go

202017mNRDocumentary
Nepal
Age rating
NR
Director
Corey Robinson
Year
2020

A diminishing water supply is driving people from their land in a remote region of Nepal. The younger generation of the Gurung family adapts by commuting from their ancestral home, where subsistence depends on grazing goats and cows, to a village that has a commercial apple orchard, fed by irrigation. “We cannot give up cultivating our fields,” a elderly man explains. “The apple farm is not going to be able to feed us easily.” The older generation believes that water shortages stem from road building and bulldozing, upsetting the natural order, a young man explains. Both generations fly prayer flags, beseeching water.

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Directed by

Corey Robinson

Produced by

Cameron Kruse, Tashi Bista