The Botanist

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Tajikistan, a former Soviet Socialist 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.

• Maude Plante-HusarukDirector
• Maxime Lacoste-LebuisDirector

• Raïmberdi MamatumarovSelf