• Director(s):

    CASTAIGNEDE (FREDERIC)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE, AUTEURS ASSOCIES

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2005

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

In the Pacific Ocean, the inhabitants of the island of Tuvalu are threatened by rising sea levels and the first signs of the drowning awaiting Tuvalu are already apparent.

The Great Barrier Reef has seen repeated coral bleaching as sea water temperatures are rising and cannot stop high energetic sea waves anymore during high spring tides. It causes seawater to infiltrate the coral reefs polluting groundwater as well as crops. Local populations adapt as well as they can but many of them have already migrated to New Zealand. Like several Pacific archipelagoes, Tuvalu is little by little disappearing under the rising ocean. Spring tides each February can be fatal, without mentioning tsunamis which the inhabitants compare to the Great Deluge.