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ON THIN ICE – AUF DÜNNEM EIS

For decades, large areas of Arctic Russia and Siberia were considered restricted areas. For the first time, a team was able to enter some of these zones at the Arctic Circle only to discover dramatic degradations in Siberia’s water, soil and air. Gigantic craters opening in the permafrost, forest fires devastating entire Taiga regions, rivers mutating into rivulets and pack ice fields melting in record time. In the Russian Arctic, it would seem that Pandora’s Box has been opened. The film is highly topical, alarming and provides gripping imagery from a little-known and rarely seen frontline of climate change.

ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTARY
GERMANY 2020
D
: HENRY M. MIX/BOAS SCHWARZ
52‘, GERMAN