¡Vivan las Antipodas!
104 minutes | Germany Netherlands Argentina Chile | (Subtitled) Spanish Russian English Setswana | Canadian Premiere | Rating: PG
Antipodes refer to populations settled on precisely opposite sides of the globe, an exceedingly rare occurrence given the percentage of the Earth’s surface covered in water. Award-winning filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky uses the idea of antipodes to launch a dizzying and exuberant travelogue moving between Argentina and China, Russia and Chile, Botswana and Hawaii, Spain and New Zealand, illuminating uncanny continuities and disturbing disjunctions between the landscapes and cultures encountered there. Botswanan women gently dance in harmony with the sounds of Hawaiian slack-key guitars from the opposite side of the world. Shepherds from Patagonia, Chile take their flocks to be sheared while sheep in Lake Bulkal, Russia graze peacefully. Mesmerizing, moving and at times transcendentally comical, ¡Vivan Las Antipodas! breathes life into places that seem mythically connected. Eli Horwatt
Co-Presented with Co-presented with [Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival](http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/).
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Director(s)
Victor Kossakovsky
Producer(s)
Heino Deckert
Writer(s)
Victor Kossakovsky
Cinematographer(s)
Victor Kossakovsky
Editor(s)
Victor Kossakovsky
Composer(s)
Alexander Popov
Sound
Guido Beremblum
