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DOCUMENTARY Like a face drawn in the sand, the Danish island Mandø is vanishing due to global warming. With their defiant humour and Nordic melancholy, the islanders cling to their identity. Gregers, the last farmer on Mandø, is putting on a brave face: he refuses to create a new life for himself elsewhere and hopes instead to find a wife to run the farm with him. Bird-watcher Niels mourns the loss of various rare birds, Ellen and Ingeborg suffer from lunatism and Mie is celebrating her 100th birthday. But rising sea levels and increasingly extreme weather conditions are making life on the 8km² island an ever greater challenge.

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JUAN PALACIOS (*1986 in Spain) is a Basque film maker and art researcher. His first documentary Pedaló (2016) won awards at the international film festival in San Sebastian in 2016. In 2019 he was one of the Berlinale Talents.

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