Old man Peter / Starik Peter

Golovnev Ivan / Russia / 2008 / 26 min.

This film takes us into the world of old man Peter Sengepov, the last surviving Shaman of the Kazym River, who lives alone in the depths of the Siberian taiga. The region of the Khanty people is the basic source of oil recovery in Russia. About 70 percent of all Russian oil is extracted here. The oil companies actively buy huge territories in the North of Siberia. Indigenous people are compelled to leave these places, their own patrimonial territories, and so a modern civilization gradually absorbs an ancient culture.



Awards
2nd Award at the 10 International Film Festival ECO-ETNO-FOLK, Romania — 2008 Best international documentary at the 8 International Film Festival CORTOPOTERE, Italia — 2008 Best international documentary at the 13 International Tehran Short Film Festival, Tehran, Iran — 2008


Screenings
Berlin International Film Festival BERLINALE , Germany, 2008 IFF Message-to-Man, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008 IFF Document 6, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2008 IFF DaKino, Bucharest, Romania, 2008 IFF One World, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009 IFF Worldfilm, Tartu, Estonia, 2009 IFF Ethnographic Films, Quebec, Canada, 2009 IFF Jean Rouch, Paris, France, 2009


Category
Human Right's Film


Production Company
Ethnographic Bureau Studio
49-21, Gagarina Street, Ekaterinburg,
Russia
Tel.: 007-343-3629096
Fax: 007-343-3629096
E-mail: ivandrr@mail.ru