The Absence of Apricots (2018)

Film Journal 2021 (130 movies items)

"A very impressive documentary about a valley in Pakistan that got flooded due to a rockslide in 2008, and a family that resides next to what is now a lake, mournful of their previous home and glory, now washed under the water. The family talks of these past days as we're treated to magnificent shots of Pakistani nature and the surrounding area, as well as a narrative framework of a fairy tale about people dealing with the environment of the world they live in. It's a collection of fragments, but"