My Mercury (2025)

Directed by

Joëlle Chesselet, Pippa Ehrlich

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a young conservationist who moves to a remote island off Namibia to live and work. It shows his daily life and efforts to protect the wildlife there.

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What happens

My Mercury is a 2024 documentary film directed, written, and produced by Joëlle Chesselet. The film follows then-28-year-old conservationist Yves Chesselet, who sheds the comforts of modern living to relocate to the remote Mercury Island off the coast of Namibia. The film was released on January 12, 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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