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E125 - Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) - Screens 125

Published: March 29, 2026

Duration: 1:01:55

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) is a surreal documentary by Werner Hertzog offering viewers an unprecedented glimpse of Europe’s oldest Palaeolithic art inside France’s Chauvet Cave. As we step into the cave, we cross a threshold between present and past, waking and dreaming, fact and truth... sanity and insanity... A place where juggling archaeologists dream of lions, perfumers find caves by smell, and nuclear crocodiles draw closer every year.

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Watch Cave of Forgotten Dreams Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi Oldest cave art found in Sulawesi The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of N...