Aralkum
MovieTitle | Aralkum |
User score | 6 |
Release date | Apr 15, 2022 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Daniel Asadi Faezi , Mila Zhluktenko |
Production country | Germany, Uzbekistan |
Production companies | Lotas Film, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München |
Run time | 14 min. |
The Aral “Sea” powerfully reveals the deadly impact of human activities—in this case, the intensive cultivation of cotton in the USSR—on an ecosystem. Daniel Asadi Faezi (The Absence of Apricots, VdR 2018) and Mila Zhluktenko (Find Fix Finish, VdR 2017) film the shore’s last inhabitants, who have lost their way of life to the desertification of their environment. A beautiful and poignant work about our probable future.