ALTIMIR - 17 min
Since the collapse of the communist regime in 1989, Bulgaria has experienced the most extreme population decline in the world. Low birth rates, high death rates, and two large waves of emigration have erased villages from Bulgaria's map and pushed others to the verge of extinction. Altimir explores life in one of Bulgaria's disappearing villages haunted by the promises of communism and capitalism.

THE RAIN WILL FOLLOW - 15 min
Though confined to a nursing home, 90-year-old Melvin Wisdahl lives an interior life, filled with images of the war he fought in, the struggles of the early Norwegian settlers of North Dakota, his ghost town of a home, his love of the ever-evolving and threatened land.

ROADSIDE RADIATION - 56 min
With stories and impressions from the zone of alienation around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, ROADSIDE RADIATION portrays the different fates of its past and present residents and researches the complex human consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe: a place of collective loss but also of individual survival.

(Total 88 min)

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