“The Botanist” (Canada, Tajikistan, 2016, Maxime Lacoste-Lebuis, Maude Plante-Husaruk, 20’)
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Social Soviet Republic, plunged into a devastating civil war. A famine struck the mountainous region of the Pamir where Raïmberdi, a passionate and ingenious botanist, built his own hydroelectric station to help his family survive through the crisis.
