Bibliograph

Dave not coming back, Nemesis Films Inc. ; producers, Audrey-Ann Dupuis Pierre, Jonah Malak ; written & directed by Jonah Malak

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Label

Dave not coming back, Nemesis Films Inc. ; producers, Audrey-Ann Dupuis Pierre, Jonah Malak ; written & directed by Jonah Malak

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Dave not coming back

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

1195742355

Responsibility statement

Nemesis Films Inc. ; producers, Audrey-Ann Dupuis Pierre, Jonah Malak ; written & directed by Jonah Malak

Runtime

Summary

Two high level scuba-divers and long-time friends, Don and Dave, broke a world record for depth in the Boesmansgat cave in South Africa. It would take them 15 minutes to reach the bottom, but 12 hours to surface. Having reached the bottom, against all odds, they find a body. They decide to come back and retrieve it. They call the parents, enrol 8 fellow divers, and hire a cameraman to document the dive. The camera will follow them throughout the preparation and the dive, including to the bottom of the cave. Little did they know that on that historic dive, Dave would not be coming back. In this time of over-performance driven by self-promotion and self-filming comes Boesmansgat, a story of loss and mourning where egoism and altruism, hubris and self-control, risk-taking and spirituality all go hand in hand. A cascade of choices and tense paradoxes that lead to a tragedy long foreseen, yet impossible to prevent

Technique

live action

Classification