Sylt - The Land Where the Ground Shrinks (2008)

• 76%
• 2008
• Documentary
• Samuel Bester

The island of Sylt, in northern Germany, is on borrowed time. Each year, the storms of the North Sea nibblea little more the sectionsof an austere but preciouslandscape like a jewel. Thedrama of the announced disappearance of the island then responds to the frantic and obsessive gestures of men. Everything is triedto curb the unleashing of the forces of the climate andpreserve this environment, which has become less and less natural over time, more and more forbidden...