BC Premiere
North of the Mongolian border, the ancient Siberian Lake Baikal is reimagined through hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman speaking in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
Supported by
Community Partner
Marina Dorzhieva
Canada/Germany
2023
In Buryat-Mongolian with English subtitles
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Credits
Producer
Alisi Telengut
Screenwriter
Alisi Telengut
ANIM
Alisi Telengut
Original Music
Spiridon Shishigin
Director
Alisi Telengut
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian descent, living between Berlin, Germany and Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal, Canada. She creates animation frame by frame under the camera with mixed media to generate movement, and explore hand-made and painterly visuals for her films. Alisi is a Canadian Screen Award nominee and a Québec Cinéma Awards – Prix Iris winner in Best Animated Film.
Filmography: La Grogne (2021); The Fourfold (2020); Natug-Homeland (2016); Tears of Inge (2013)