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COLOSTRUM

By Sayaka MIZUNO

First film - Completed 2025

On a Swiss mountain pasture, Solène, a volunteer from the city, experiences the harshness of Pascal’s daily life as a dairy farmer. Despite their differences, they forge an unlikely bond as they get to know each other, working side by side.

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Visions du réel 2025

National Competition

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- First film, Female director, Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 80 mn
- Director(s)
- Sayaka MIZUNO
- Writer(s)
- Sayaka MIZUNO
- Producer(s)
- Aline SCHMID (Beauvoir Films), Adrian BLASER (BEAUVOIR FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Since the death of his father and, more recently, his brother, Pascal, 47, a dairy farmer in the Swiss Alps, is the sole backbone of the family business. Every day, he milks around thirty cows, selling the milk on to dairy companies in the valley.
  
  Over the summer, he receives help from a volunteer. Solène, a 31-year-old city-dweller, gets a taste of the harshness of an alpine farmer’s daily life, as she tends to land and livestock and continuously questions our
  relationship with living beings.
  
  At an altitude of 1580m, Pascal and Solène get to know, open up and really listen to each other, even though they seem worlds apart. COLOSTRUM offers a unique perspective on dairy farming, where the relationship between humans, animals and nature takes on a special dimension. In this film shaped by
  contrasts, Sayaka Mizuno immerses us in the day-to-day life of a farmer through touching interactions between the protagonists, contemplative photography and a unique soundtrack combining the sounds of nature, farming machinery and the humming tunes of
  the Theremin.

COLOSTRUM

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