Documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter couldn’t have found a better subject to represent the famous “unity in diversity.” A tourist cliché, the Austrian director turns against itself, by highlighting the invisible threads that bind us on the planet – a multitude of nations and cultures – through the endless production of garbage. An utterly unflattering idea, which has the merit of putting us face to face with one of the most urgent stakes of the moment: it takes a few distant fixed shots to understand we are literally swimming through garbage. Travelling the world far and wide, from the Swiss Alps to luxury seaside African resorts, the film rummages through waste with the detachment of the device that once again places Geyrhalter at the fertile intersection between cinema, contemporary art installation, and Discovery Channel. Everyone is free to let themselves be carried by the film in a welcome upsurge of solidarity in our struggle to save what can still be saved, before it’s too late. (Victor Morozov)