film profile] in a world premiere within the Visions du Réel Festival’s International Competition, as well as in CPH:DOX's Next:Wave Award line-up. Surrounded, and sometimes almost cradled, by the glacial chill of Eastern Siberia,
Holgut’s protagonists seem to spin on a rope between the past and the present, between nature and science. What part do human beings play in the process of animal extinction? And most importantly, what impact does the extinction of certain animal species have on the lives of human beings? Liesbeth De Ceulaer tackles these questions without attempting to offer up dogmatic answers rooted in linear and pseudoscientific reasoning. Instead, she takes us on a poetic albeit frightening journey into the entrails of the Earth, where the ruins of a glorious past re-emerge to confront us with our weaknesses and contradictions.