François Jacob
2017 - 110 min - Video Full HD - Couleur - Canada
The mining town of Norilsk sits in the heart of the Siberian Arctic, huddled behind its wind walls and bathed in the smoke and sulfur of its factories. While teenagers in the icy city dream of exile and nickel miners ponder the lost Soviet comradeship, descendants of Gulag prisoners and theatre artists seek to shed light on Norilsk's dark past, buried under ice and censorship.
"A Moon of Nickel and Ice" fondly follows the lives of these inhabitants of the end of the world.
Author-Director : François Jacob
Photography : Ilya Zima, François Jacob, Vuk Stojanovic
Sound : Hélène Magne
Editing : Jéricho Jeudy, François Jacob
Delegate Producer : Les Films Camera Oscura
Distinctions
2017 - Visions du Réel, Nyon (Suisse) : Sélection2017 - Hot Docs - Canadian International Documentary Festival, Toronto (Canada) : Emerging Canadian Filmmaker Award
2017 - DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver (Canada) : Honourable Mention in the Canadian Documentary Competition