The Last Transhumance

Dragos Lumpan

2025 / 90 minutes
Romania / Albania, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, United Kingdom
Albanian, English, Italian, Romanian, Turkish with English Subtitles

Filmed in six countries during fifteen years, The Last Transhumance takes us into the world of shepherds who walk with their animals very long distances in search for food: an ancient way of life not compatible with the modern world.

Some 10.000 years ago, in the Middle East, man first domesticated sheep, and took them “on the road.” That's what shepherds call transhumance. Their journey measures time and space with tools we have forgotten. People and herds swing between plains and mountains, setting in motion a mechanism that has ticked for thousands of years yet is about to stand still. The transhumance clock stops each time a family of shepherds choose to no longer take to the road. Nevertheless, it keeps ticking through the stubbornness of those who continue to sleep among their sheep under the clear sky – the remaining few who still live under the stars. The Last Transhumance tells their story.