smaragda (POLY COOL)

Smaragda, the face behind Geography is very cool, talks to us about her favorite documentaries on Cinobo: Why did she only choose documentaries? What makes the Atacama Desert special? And how exactly do penguins walk?

Heaven is in the sky and hell beneath the ground. One of the best existential documentaries ever made, Patricio Guzmán's study of the dichotomy between ignorance of the unknown and the sad knowledge of political events that shook Chile, brings history and astronomy closer than ever. — In Chile's Atacama Desert, at an altitude of three thousand feet, astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The desert's sky is a place where the harsh heat of the sun "falls" on human existence, which remains intact: on mummies, miners and explorers... as well as on the political prisoners of the dictatorship; and while astronomers examine the farthest galaxies, just below the observatories, women dig through the desert in search of their missing relatives. — European Documentary Award | European Film Awards | 2010 Black Pearl Award | Abu Dhabi Film Festival | 2010 Official Selection | Toronto International Film Festival

After the Oscar-winning documentary "March of the Penguins", director Luc Jacquet returns to Antarctica once more. This is another epic travelogue in the vast, frozen landscape of the South Pole, which looks into the causes of the ecological time tomb that we call "climate change". — The story of glacialist Claude Lorius, whose pioneering research in Antarctica provided the first evidence for global warming. Lorius was a student when he went on his first Antarctic mission in 1955, and since then he has participated in 22 more. He faced unforgiving conditions and tough personal challenges, but was rewarded with a stunning discovery.