Satellite Screening : Okavango

The Okavango in Southern Africa is one of the greatest rivers on Earth – and it is also a river like no other. It starts in the mountains of Angola, but unlike normal rivers, its waters don’t run towards the ocean.

Instead, the Okavango flows inland through Angola and into Botswana - only to vanish completely in the Kalahari desert, after a journey of 1,500 kilometres. Almost all of the water eventually evaporates, and very little actually seeps away, down into the soil.

But it is the way the film is constructed that intrigues, as a journey drawing on Dante’s “Divine Comedy”, from the Inferno to Limbo to Paradise, and through the eyes of characters like male lions who climb trees to find their prides, that hunt massive herds of buffalo on termite castles of clay.

An extensive array of animals are shown in this film, living in harmony with…