Where the Wind Takes You

Screened at FCFF 2025

Film Synopsis

Following in his father’s footsteps of polar exploration, captain Peter Schurke takes us up the West coast of Svalbard in a small sailboat, dwarfed by the towering mountains of this arctic archipelago.

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