Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

A desert landscape, as if from another planet. A few lonely, rusty shipwrecks. Low desert scrub grows around them to hold the sand together during the merciless storms. Aralkum, the Aral Desert, is the bare seabed, the last thing left of the Aral Sea. By weaving together different cinematic textures, the short film Aralkum re-imagines the dried-up Aral Sea, allowing an old fisherman to set sail one last time.

Mila Zhluktenko (*Kyiv/Ukraine) and Daniel Asadi Faezi (*Schweinfurt/Germany) studied in the documentary department at University of Television and Film Munich. They collaborated on various non-fiction projects, including The Absence of Apricots, Opera Glasses or Aralkum, which screened at festivals such as Locarno, San Sebastian, and Visions du Réel. Their most recent film "waking up in silence" was awarded the International Juryaward at 73. Berlinale Generation Kplus competition.