There are places that we don’t want to know anything about, places that we would rather pretend don’t exist at all. One such place is a dumpsite. From the humans’ point of view, it is a ghastly place, a stinking desert of trash. But it’s a desert that is teaming with life. The astounding profusion of insects, reptiles, birds and mammals, all intertwined in an existential life-death relationship imparts to it with some strangely alluring dream-like quality.
Nominated for European Film Academy Documentary 2005 Prix Arte
National Film Award Lielais Kristaps for the Best short documentary
Grand Prix at IFF «Green Vision», Russia
Selected for Pusan IFF, IDFA and Karlovy Vary IFF
Selection for INPUT’2006 in Taipei (Taiwan)
NDR/arte
Laila Pakalniņa
Māris Maskalāns
Laila Pakalniņa
Māris Maskalāns
Shigeru Umebayashi
Anrijs Krenbergs
Gatis Belogrudovs
Uldis Cekulis