Hanakova says a particularly rich find from the period was Palo Bielik's short film "On the Island of Cormorants" from 1944. "It is about the "cohabitation" of two communities: filmmakers making ...

Little Andrey grows up in a family of ornithologists and dreams of studying birds and their language. But one day he finds out that the birds on Lake Baikal are in danger.

The two films: The Cormorant and the Lake> and The Old Man and the Lake> follow the life of a fisherman or a lake guardian who are away from the modernization while leading a simple peaceful life ...