
The Call of The Glacier / L'Appel du glacier (15')
Year: 2019
Director: Hassan Lakhdar
Duration: 15’
Country: Switzerland
Production company: Teenergy Productions
Synopsis: At the foot of the Rhône glacier in the canton of Valais, Vanessa and Gabriel discover some concrete implications of climate change, but also an area where the Rhône meanders freely in an alpine alluvial plain.
Director’s bio: Hassan Lakhdar was born in Morocco in 1958. After a bilingual education in Morocco, he went to Europe to study at the University of Essex in the UK. He then specialized in communication, vulgarization and adult education in Switzerland. He has 20 years of experience as a director and producer with more than 200 projects to date - magazines, reports, documentaries and clips, in partnership with the United Nations, the Swiss and French governments, NGOs and the private sector.