One woman, one glacier, and the end of the world in 11 haunting minutes.
A vast, rocky desert. A lone woman struggles to preserve the last remaining bit of the last remaining glacier with a crazy patchwork of cloth and rags that she retrieves from the abandoned valleys. Sisyphus' work. Only at night, when the blazing sun has disappeared, other creatures appear. Wolves and mountain goats drink in unison from the last source of water. And the woman is no longer alone.
Cinematography
Desert landscapes that swallow humans whole.
Direction
Oberli lets images scream where words fail.
Director
Bettina Oberli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Oberli filmed in actual Swiss glaciers rapidly disappearing, making the fiction documentary-adjacent.
Released at 2019 Cannes Critics' Week, it premiered alongside growing youth climate strikes—Greta Thunberg's shadow looms.
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