With striking visions of an ecosystem that feels like another planet, Land of Metal tells the story of a one-of-a-kind environment: New Caledonia’s mining scrubland. Rich in heavy metals and home to more than 2,500 endemic plant species, it remains both a mystery to science and an obsession for prospectors in search of nickel, chromium, copper, or cobalt.
Conceived as the dramatic epic of an ecosystem, this film retraces how its miraculous singularity also drew its downfall, ravaged in barely a century of colonization and exploitation.
