It’s night, and 400 miles off the coast of Europe, the Faroe Islands rise up from the sea into imposing, jagged peaks. A a line of human figures is strung-out along one of the cliffs. In the darkness their silhouettes could almost be mistaken for the very birds whose necks they have come to ring.
This bleak image is from director Mike Day’s spell-binding new documentary, The Islands and the Whales, about the challenges faced by self-governing archipelago.
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