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Wukwukai is 72 years. For 72 years he has been living in the depths of Chukotka. This is a powerful and wise old man, a man of the Tundra, his life is inseparable from a deer. The Wukvukai clan herds a huge herd, more than 14 thousand heads. The life of the clan is a constant struggle for survival and well-being in the most difficult conditions of Chaun-Chukotka. These people deeply believe in the power of tradition and therefore are successful in their struggle. They are kept by the ancient culture of the Chukchi reindeer herders, they live by it and preserve it. As long as this is so, their world is unshakable. This is the truth of old Wukwukai.
The tundra book. The Tale of Wukwukai - a small stone
9
Alexey Vakhrushev
Russia, 2011
105 min
The earthquake began on December 7, 1988. No one could yet understand what had happened, but suddenly, at one moment, the telephone connection of the Armenian capital with Leninakan, Spitak and a number of other small towns and villages was interrupted. The entire north of Armenia has practically fallen silent, and this is 40 percent of the entire territory of the republic with a population of one million people. This film is about the life of ordinary people 13 years after a terrible disaster.
Frescoes
9
Aleksander Gutman
Russia, 2002
92 min
Russian
The Nenets live in three worlds. The lower world is where the north is, the upper world is where the south is, the middle world is the road. Yaptik-Khese is the spirit of the Yaptik family. He is carried on sacred sledges and is not shown to anyone. His home is the road. While Yaptik-Khese roams, there will always be deer, dogs, Nenets on the ground.
Yaptik Haese
9
Edgar Bartenev
Russia, 2006
31 min
English
The traditional way of hunting and fishing of the people living on the Yenisei, namely, Russians, Keto (Yenisei Ostyaks), herrings. Their history and present. The inseparable connection of man with the river and taiga as a model of traditional nature management. Four series, each of which reflects the life of the Yenisei in one of the seasons.
Happy people
9
Dmitriy Vasyukov
Russia, 2008
78 min
Ivanna, jeune femme nénètse et mère de cinq enfants, vit dans les plaines de l’Arctique russe. Comme toute sa famille, depuis des siècles, elle mène une vie nomade dans la toundra et veille sur son troupeau de rennes. Livrée à elle-même, elle lutte pour la survie de sa famille. Mais bientôt, Ivanna sera forcée de retrouver son mari, en ville. Une vie meilleure l’y attend-elle ? Le réalisateur Renato Borrayo Serrano a suivi pendant quatre ans la dure réalité d’une nomade de la toundra – une femme coriace qui regarde la vie en face, ne perd jamais le sens de l’humour et rêve, au plus profond d’elle-même, de sécurité et de liberté.

La projection sera suivie d’un débat avec le réalisateur !

Ivanna is a young Nenets woman and mother of five, living in the Russian Arctic. Like her family for centuries before, she has led a traditional nomadic life in the tundra, driving a herd of reindeer. Most of them die, and she knows she will soon be left without a livelihood and be forced to make a dramatic decision. The film is about four years of a Nenets family from the harsh life in the tundra to modern everyday life in the Siberian city of Dudinka. It is both a liberating drama and a melancholy requiem for a lost way of life.
Life of Ivanna
9
Renato Borrayo Serrano
Estonia, Russia, Finland, Norway, 2021
80 min
English
Far beyond the Arctic Circle, Taimyr froze in the snow. The northernmost peninsula of Russia, where the ancient shamans, the ancestors of the Nganasans, found their home. The Nganasans have always been a small people. In the 19th century, only about a thousand people called themselves Nganasans, and this figure did not change for many years. But over the past 30 years, their number has decreased by a third.
Rare people
9
Ildar Izmailov
Russia, 2014
81 min
With the assassination in 1948 by state security officers of the head of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, Solomon Mikhoels, new times begin in the relationship between the Soviet government and Jews. The liquidation of the JAC, the execution of its activists, and the campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans" form a new state anti-Semitism. The death of Stalin will cancel the massacre, but the former official Russian-Jewish harmony under socialism will no longer be restored. Popularly known superstars have not diminished: Botvinnik is the main chess player, Raikin is the main comedian, Plisetskaya is the main ballerina, Galich and Vysotsky are the main bards, many famous names in various fields, from nuclear physics to light music. But Jews have ceased to be co-authors of Russian communism. And they are no longer allowed into politics, and they themselves are especially actively engaged in "anti-Soviet activities." Without the Jews, the shadow economy is unimaginable, or rather “illegal business”, for which death sentences have been handed down since the early 1960s. And from the middle of the decade, the dissident movement begins to shake the system; the grandchildren of Jewish revolutionaries bring into it the same ardor and fearlessness that their grandfathers did in the overthrow of tsarism. Allowing Jewish emigration in the 1970s makes nationality a means of rejecting socialism and will prove to be a more frequent reason for leaving than the opportunity to reverse one's Russian assimilation. Finally, the collapse of the USSR will put an end to the "Jewish question" in the form in which the last Soviet generations found it.
Russian Jews. Film Three. After 1948
9
Sergey Nurmamed
Russia, 2017
126 min
English, Hebrew
The ancient city of Soligalich, an open-air city-museum, seems to have frozen in space and time. . In the workshop, which stands on the site of a former church, women make felt boots by hand. The heroines of the film, imbued with powerful energy and natural artistry, are bright, strong and vital. As guardians of this ancient craft, they are the spirit and the backbone of the country and worthy of the brush of the best artists.

The film is available only on the territory of the Russian Federation.
Women's territory
9
Elena Zhigaeva
Russia, 2021
56 min
A story of environmental disaster, a disappearing people, and one strong-willed woman. The once lush Nogai steppe in northern Dagestan is rapidly turning into an endless desert. Gulfira, a humble village woman, is leading the fight against the environmental catastrophe threatening her homeland. Each autumn, the team she leads ventures deep into the new desert for months at a time. Walking kilometers each day, they plant thin rods in the dry sand, hoping the bushes will take root and halt the spread of the dunes. Will Gulfira prevail in this battle against the elements? Can the Nogai people and their land survive?
Against the wind
9
Tatiana Soboleva
Russia, 2024
80 min
English
The film tells about one of the most mysterious peoples of the planet, the Dogon. The Dogon live in southeastern Mali in villages scattered over the rocks of Bandiagara like bird nests. They consider themselves aliens from the planet Sirius B and have knowledge in the field of the structure of the solar system, which scientists became aware of only at the end of the 19th century. Together with the hunter Assama and his family, the author gradually comprehends the multifaceted palette of Dogon life.
Out of Time (Children of the Pale Fox)
9
Sergey Yastrzhembsky
Russia, 2011
52 min
What would be the shortest route between the Mesopotamia in Argentina and China's Shanghai? Since these two places are antipodes in relation to each other, then they would be the most common straight line drawn through the center of the Earth. Viktor Kosakovsky had to circumnavigate the globe three times to make the film Long Live the Antipodes, a look at a world in which people live at opposite ends. Kosakovsky visited four such diametrically opposed points, and everywhere he searched for deep connections between such different worlds. The vertical axes are drawn between Argentina and China, New Zealand and Spain, Siberia and Chile, Hawaii and Botswana. Like a kaleidoscope of bright pictures of our planet, the film was the answer to the main question, so who are they, our antipodes? And are we that different? The author's conceptual point of view reveals deep connections between people and landscapes located as far as possible from each other.
Long live the antipodes!
9
Victor Kossakovsky
Russia, Germany, Netherlands, Argentina, Chile, China, 2011
108 min
English
Yuri Vella is a Nenets hunter and poet who fights against the oil concern for his ancestral lands.
Vaella
8
Vladimir Gerchikov
Russia, 2005
35 min
An intimate story of the relationship between father and son, living on the edge of the earth near the Bering Sea, imbued with the harshness of local reality and unpretentiousness of childhood years, the strictness of paternal education and love, which always finds its place in any part of this planet and in any of the hearts, even in the one that at first glance is harder than stone.
Koka
8
Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk
Poland, 2024
47 min
English
Piirissaar is a tiny Estonian island in Lake Peipus, on the very border of Russia. The Russian Old Believers who inhabited the island appeared here 300 years ago, during the Great Northern War, fleeing from the religious reforms in the Orthodox Church and to avoid being mobilized in the Russian army. As the waves have washed the island smaller and smaller, the community here has also fused over time, inevitably reaching the brink of extinction. However, the local culture and sense of life that developed in isolation from the rest of the "Russian world" has not yet completely disappeared from Piirissaar.
Cohabitants
8
Viesturs Kairiss
Estonia, 2024
20 min
English
The phrase "Black holes" appeared thanks to science fiction, but came into use thanks to science, which thereby confirmed their existence. Black holes remain as much a symbol of a bold scientific hypothesis as white spots are a symbol of scientific mystery.
Black holes. White spots
8
Sergey Vinogradov
Russia, 2005
39 min
The film tells about ancient rituals and traditions, original rituals that were used during weddings and matchmaking. Evening on the eve of the wedding in the village of the Pskov region. Black and white photographs and stories of old ladies on one side; living rituals, traditions that have survived to this day on the other. The picture is dedicated to a Russian wedding, but in fact it is about a moment, about a girl's state of expectation of happiness.
Sarafan
8
Aleksandra Strelyanaya
Russia, 2006
21 min
English
The Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who left the power of the Moscow prince for the harsh forests of the Tersky coast in order to preserve their former freemen. Today they fish, farm and even plant forests. They will not exchange their harsh, difficult, but free life for any other.
Free people
8
Svetlana Stasenko
Russia, 2008
39 min
Documentary comedy. A community of Old Believers settled in the upper reaches of the Biryusa. They fenced themselves off from the world with a wall of alienation. The film crew is trying to get through it.
Great rivers of Siberia. Biryusa
8
Pavel Fattahutdinov, Svetlana Bobrova
Russia, 2014
31 min
Zakhar lives in the middle of the vast expanses of the polar tundra, a hundred kilometers from other people. He is 7 years old, but he already has his own reindeer and a piece of tundra for pasture. One day, a teacher from a nomadic school joins his family, who is supposed to teach the boy the alphabet, counting and tell him who Putin is.

Long version.
How Big is the Galaxy?
8
Kseniya Elyan
Estonia, Russia, 2018
72 min
Russian, English
Northwestern Siberia, Russia. The little Khanty girl Katerina observes and tries to understand the world around her. She studies the voices of people, animals and all things. Gradually, she comes to know the unknown, and the unknown comes, not far from the camp where Katerina lives, an oil field appears.
Tiny Katerina
8
Ivan Golovnev
Russia, 2004
24 min
English
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