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WFF 2023: "Diving in a Drop"

An expedition to one of several glacier-fed lakes on the upper slopes of the Ojos del Salado volcano in Argentina’s Atacama Desert, by Frédéric Swierczynski, a cave diver, and Sébastien Devrient, a mountain guide and the film’s director.