North American Premiere
In the wilderness of the Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous palaeontologist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost in search of an ancient creature.
Aisen Klimovskii
UK
2026
In Sakha with English subtitles
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Credits & Director
Producer
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Cinematography
Maxim Arbugaev, Vladimir Egorov
Editor
Evgenia Arbugaeva, Joshua Chadwick
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Evgenia Arbugaeva is a photographer and filmmaker born in Tiksi, a town on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Sakha. Her debut short, Haulout (2022), co-directed with her brother Maxim Arbugaev, documents the tragic effects of climate change on the walrus population of the Arctic, and was nominated for an Academy Award. Arbugaeva is a National Geographic Society Explorer and recipient of the ICP Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her photography. Her work has been exhibited internationally and has appeared in The New Yorker, Time, and National Geographic, among other publications.
Photo by Theodora Richter
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