Cars race across frozen Lake Baikal – and sink. Images of a dramatic rescue on the ever-thinner ice kick off this unusual portrait of the natural world. The lead actor is water in all its various states and manifestations – as ice floes, glaciers, monster waves, and floods. It appears as the deadly storm that was hurricane Irma in Florida, and in all its photogenic glory as Angel Falls in Venezuela … Seven years after his 2012 documentary “!Vivan las Antipodas!” won the Lola German Film Award, the director has made a truly “elemental” film. There can be no doubt that he has once again lived up to the assessment of the jury that selected the earlier film, “Victor Kossakovsky composes a world of imagery that we’ve never seen quite that way. His poetic images exert a kind of pull from which nobody can escape”.