THE VOICE FROM THE TUNDRA (LA VOIX DE LA TOUNDRA) # 170
11:00, Wednesday 17th June, Cinema 1
Director/Anthropologist: Jean Ehret
Year of Release: 2013
Duration: 52 mins
Country of Production: Belgium
Location: Yamal Tundra
Ethnic Group: Nenets
Language: Russian with English and French subtitles
Anastasia Lapsui is the first film-maker from the Far North of Russia to have filmed her people in her mother tongue - Nenets. Born in the Yamal tundra in 1943, she bears witness to the end of an era, filming a world in the process of mutation. With the same desire to pass on knowledge the film follows Anastasia Lapsui in her daily and professional life. Through a "making of" from her latest film-shoot, this is a portrait of a film-maker and her people, the Nenets of the tundra.