Six years in the making, award-winning film AFTER WINTER, SPRING is an intimate portrait of a rural community in southwest France as it grapples with a profound question: will it be the last generation of family farmers in a region continuously cultivated for over five thousand years?
Their story is recorded by one of their neighbors, an American filmmaker who grew up on her family’s farm in Pennsylvania. Inter-weaving her story and theirs, the film explores the nature of the farming life and the impact of rapid modernization on families whose survival is tied to the land. As the farmers’ stories unfold, we see their responses to change…the losses and the surprising adaptations. AFTER WINTER, SPRING reveals the human story of family farming at a turning point in history.
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AUDIENCE AWARD, Mill Valley Film Festival
BEST FOREIGN DOCUMENTARY, Arizona Int'l Film Festival
JURY AWARD, Caméras des Champs
"An unforgettable, moving, thought-provoking film." - Maine International Film Festival
"An insightful, lyrical tribute to a way of life on the verge of extinction." - Florida Film Festival
"I love this film...a beautiful and intimate look into the lives of contemporary French peasants who heroically struggle to maintain the dignity of traditional, tactile ways in an age of EU homogenization...Must see!...This is an important and original film." - Richard McCarthy, Executive Director, Slow Food USA