Russia
30’, 2018
DIRECTED BY
Julia Kushnarenko
PRODUCED BY
Julia Kushnarenko, Maxim Arbugaev
SCRIPTWRITER
Julia Kushnarenko
CINEMATOGRAPHER
Julia Kushnarenko
EDITED BY
Julia Kushnarenko
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Production at Russia’s enormous Bovanenkovo natural gas field began in 2012. Bovanenkovo is located on the Yamal Peninsula, a remote area of Siberia where temperatures in winter sink below minus 50. But the gas production facilities obstruct the historical migration routes of the Nenets people, indigenous reindeer herders, who have to pass through sprawling industrial zones to reach their summer pastures. The intrusion of modernity means the nomadic herders are facing a stark choice: to try and save their unique lifestyle or assimilate with the new reality. Squeezed between the past and the future, this is a story about a people bound to the land and their struggle to endure.