Synopsis
An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of sheep up into Montana's breathtaking and often dangerous Absaroka-Beartooth mountains for summer pasture, revealing a world in which nature and culture, animals and humans, vulnerability and violence are all intimately meshed.
Sweetgrass (2009) is a 1h 41min documentary feature film by Lucien Castaing-Taylor. An unsentimental elegy to the American West, Sweetgrass follows the last modern-day cowboys to lead their flocks of s...
Facts
Original language
English
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Festival History
- Independent Spirit Awards 2011 generic
- Indiewire Critics' Poll 2010 generic
- Village Voice Film Poll 2010 generic
- Berlin International Film Festival 2009 generic
