Ivola Frank’s documentary draws in deep science about the origins of life on Earth along with warm portraits of the young people who face environmental crisis
A love letter to her Greenland home, Ivola Frank’s stirring documentary explores the paradoxes of this beautiful and remote island. According to a groundbreaking study by geologist Minik Rosing, it is where life on Earth began, among the rock formations that have existed for nearly 4bn years. At the same time, the residents of Greenland are also bearing witness to what could be the first signs of our environmental annihilation, as the island’s icecap continues to melt at a terrifying speed under the effects of global heating.
The question of human survival is an overwhelmingly existential one. Frank’s film, however, also makes spaces for expressions of life both big and small. Intimate conversations with Greenlandic teenagers reveal their dreams for the future,...
A love letter to her Greenland home, Ivola Frank’s stirring documentary explores the paradoxes of this beautiful and remote island. According to a groundbreaking study by geologist Minik Rosing, it is where life on Earth began, among the rock formations that have existed for nearly 4bn years. At the same time, the residents of Greenland are also bearing witness to what could be the first signs of our environmental annihilation, as the island’s icecap continues to melt at a terrifying speed under the effects of global heating.
The question of human survival is an overwhelmingly existential one. Frank’s film, however, also makes spaces for expressions of life both big and small. Intimate conversations with Greenlandic teenagers reveal their dreams for the future,...
- 8/5/2024
- by Phuong Le
- The Guardian - Film News
“The Eclipse” by Nataša Urban has picked up the top Dox:Award at Copenhagen Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
It was awarded at a ceremony in the Danish capital, which opened with a homage to Ukraine – where fest organizers announced they would be screening Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” in theaters across the nation immediately after the festival to show “that there is another Russia.”
“The Eclipse” was competing with 11 others for the top award – half of them had their world premiere at the fest, part of no fewer than 76 world premieres during the event.
Focusing on the events of Aug. 11, 1999, when most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of a total solar eclipse, the film uses the rare natural phenomenon as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices. In the process, Urban’s documentary essay confronts...
It was awarded at a ceremony in the Danish capital, which opened with a homage to Ukraine – where fest organizers announced they would be screening Daniel Roher’s “Navalny” in theaters across the nation immediately after the festival to show “that there is another Russia.”
“The Eclipse” was competing with 11 others for the top award – half of them had their world premiere at the fest, part of no fewer than 76 world premieres during the event.
Focusing on the events of Aug. 11, 1999, when most of Serbia’s population barricaded themselves in their homes and nuclear bunkers in fear of a total solar eclipse, the film uses the rare natural phenomenon as a metaphor for a nation’s unclean conscience about the consequences of its political choices. In the process, Urban’s documentary essay confronts...
- 4/1/2022
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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