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Stills

Once the Dust Settles

Director: John Appel
Whether it is an earthquake, nuclear disaster or war: time and again, human resilience turns out to be phenomenal. How are the inhabitants faring when the dust has settled and the camera crews and disaster tourists have left?
Amatrice, Chernobyl, Aleppo: three iconic disaster areas in modern history. Amatrice was destroyed in 2016 by an earthquake, in 1986 Chernobyl went through one of the biggest nuclear disasters in human history and the people of Aleppo are now carefully rebuilding their city, after the war reduced the historical centre to ruins. This triptych about post-catastrophe life and reconstruction focuses on the survivors’ poignant questions. The backdrop is the growing disaster tourism on visually stunning locations.

Credits

Director
Sound Design
Production company
Cobos Films BV
TV company
VPRO
Distributor NL
Cinema Delicatessen
Postproduction company
Filmmore
Stills
Title: Once the Dust Settles
Year: 2019
Duration : 1 hour, 27 minutes
Type: Long Documentary
Edition: NFF 2020
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