Haulout

In a remote hut on the Russian Arctic coast, a lone scientist waits for the yearly arrival of thousands of walruses, an ancient gathering now under strain from a warming ocean.

A nearly wordless, Oscar-nominated documentary with Arctic wildlife images so overwhelming they feel almost otherworldly.

A lone man waits in a hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic, he is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.

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