RMWFF 2022: Virtual Encore

FILM BLOCK: Pasang: In the Shadow of Everest preceded by Once There Was a Sea

Expired November 21, 2022 7:00 AM
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Last human stories from the glittering bottom of dying Aral Sea.


Svetlana stares into the salt desert with her only eye. Gulshat runs an empty hotel. Captain records traces of the vanishing sea, and Sergei drives tourists across its bare, glittering seabed. The last people of Mo´ynoq who remember the original shore of drying Aral Sea… Their days are intertwined with memories of the glorious past of the fishing power and dreams of the return of the great water. The present is a cemetery of ships that will never set sail from the port again.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    17 minutes
  • Language
    Russian
  • Country
    Poland, Slovakia
  • Director
    Joanna Kożuch
  • Screenwriter
    oanna Kozuch, Katarína Moláková
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