Cave of Forgotten Dreams

[90 min; 2010; English]
A film by Werner Herzog

Multiple award winner including LAFCA Award for Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards 2011; NYFCC Award for Best Non-Fiction Film, New York Film Critics Circle Awards 2011; VFCC Award, Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2012; among others

Well-known filmmaker Werner Herzog and a small crew are given a rare chance to film inside France's Chauvet Cave, where the walls are covered with the world's oldest surviving paintings. To preserve the art, visitors are permitted to enter the site for only two weeks a year. Examining the 30,000-year-old drawings, Herzog discusses how the artwork represents humanity's earliest dreams with scientists and art scholars conducting research at Chauvet.

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