This mini-documentary was created as part of the Nouvelles Vagues x Bloom mini-film call for the Biarritz Film Festival 2025. I designed "Sables de plastique" (Plastic Sands) in its entirety, handling every step of the project: from the interview to color grading, including directing, sound/video editing and image capture using a Lumix S5.
In Gokarna, India, the waves deposit much more than foam on the shore: they carry the remnants of a habit ingrained for generations. Once biodegradable, waste thrown on the ground blended into nature. Today, plastic accumulates, transforming beaches into silent witnesses of an irreversible change. Yet, a glimmer of hope remains: new generations are becoming aware of the urgency and starting a fight to restore the ocean's lost purity.
The ocean is the vital organ of the planet. Without the ocean, life would not be possible on Earth. The ocean regulates excess heat, dictates the water cycle, agricultural production and the habitability of the world. But the ocean has never been so threatened. The pressures our human activities place on ecosystems, animals and ocean currents are so strong that they put the planet's main climate regulator at risk of collapse. Overheated, polluted, overexploited and devastated by destructive fishing methods such as pelagic trawling and bottom trawling, the ocean needs urgent care.
In June 2025, France will host the Third United Nations Conference on the Ocean. This summit represents a crucial moment for the future of humans on Earth: if policymakers understand the unprecedented challenges they face, they may be able to make the decisions that will save life on Earth: our species and all others.
2025 is officially the year of the sea. It's time to understand that protecting the ocean means protecting ourselves. The coming months are of great importance to raise awareness and remind us of the urgency to preserve the oceans to avoid the destruction of the Earth System.
The Biarritz Film Festival – NOUVELLES VAGUES is partnering with BLOOM, a key association for the protection of the ocean and those who depend on it, to launch a call for mini films, the MINI FILMA, and invite all young people under 35 to share their vision of the oceans.
This MINI FILMA competition will be an opportunity for various talents to express themselves and produce powerful, striking and essential short works.
With a maximum duration of 90 seconds, these mini films must reflect your vision of the ocean, the vital issues that characterize our time, as you want to tell them.