ROLE

DIRECTOR

GENRE

DRAMA

YEAR

2021

FESTIVALS

Sarajevo,
Palm Springs

SYNOPSIS

​How does it feel to live in the most isolated place of the planet? Does time matter there? Do you only dream in white?

These are some of the questions Alexandre Gautier, a French woodworker who works in the maintenance service of the infrastructure of the French scientific mission in Antarctica, tries to answer in this animated documentary.

The film follows Alexandre’s voyage in Antarctica, during the scientific expedition and presents his train of thoughts and reflections about the vast whiteness of the continent, his experience as a worker there, his concept of home, the feeling of exile, isolation, loneliness, death – which is always present – and the purpose of life.

He recalls memories from the past, ponders on his current situation and sketches out his vision and dreams about the future.

This is the story of a man in search of a country, his inner Odyssey in the vastness of the edge of the world, in quest of an answer to the ultimate question of “where is home?”

Themes

• Intimacy and solitude
• The weight of unexpressed emotion
• The passage of time in confined spaces

Reception