TV documentary A/GER/IRL 2009, 52 min. Script: Raphael Barth, Keith Walsh, Jill Beardsworth Director of Photography: Philipp Pfeiffer, Raphael Barth, Simron Jit Singh, Denis Gilels Editing: Alexandra Löwy Producers: Arash T. Riahi, Michael Seeber, John Wallace, Thomas Tielsch
A production of Golden Girls in co-production with Filmtank Hamburg (D), Hawkeye Film (IRL)
The Nicobars are a small archipegalo in the Indian Ocean, where one of the last indigenous people lived almost like in a time capsule for 900 years. When the Tsunami struck them in 2004 not only a third of their population died but they were also thrown into a modern world through the wave of aid and relief organisations that arrived on their shores. This aftermath proved to be a bigger catastrophe for their culture than the Tsunami. Today the organisations are leaving and the money is spent. But the Nicobaris embark on the search for a new identity.
