Ostrov - Lost Island

Lost in the Caspian Sea, the island Ostrov was once home to a well-functioning fishing collective farm. After the fall of the USSR, the farm was destroyed, and black caviar extraction was banned. 3'000 people used to live on the island. Now, around fifty remain. The island has no gas or electricity, it has no jobs, no doctors, or police. On the mainland, Ostrov is known as the "poachers' island". For Ivan (50), the stubborn descendant of a dynasty of fishermen, there is only one job: illegal fishing for caviar, the black gold of the Caspian Sea. Ivan was imprisoned twice for poaching. Yet he goes out to sea again. There is no choice – he either gets the caviar or he starves. (Guanajuato International Film Festival)