Igor ELUKOV
Игорь ЕЛУКОВ
Igor ELOUKOV
Russia, 2025, 74mn 
documentary
Fallout Zones
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Поля падения

 

 Zones de retombées

 Polya padeniya


Plot synopsis
Northern Russia, the Mezen River basin. For decades, spent stages of space rockets launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome have been falling here. The film is based on footage from the 2000s taken by Chechen, the head of a scrap metal collection team. He obsessively searches for rockets by touch for months in the northern forests and swamps.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2026
- National Documentary Awards : Laurel, Moscow (Russia), 2025
- Message to Man : International Short, Documentary and Animated Film Festival, St Petersburg (Russia), 2025

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