Nomadic & Indigenous Life
The coming-of-age process tangles with nomadic and indigenous ways of life in films by Jayro Bustamante, Sergey Dvortsevoy, and Byambasuren Davaa.
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Ixcanul
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Jayro Bustamate • 2015 • Guatemala-France • A Mayan girl lives at the foot of an active volcano
Immersing the spectator in the rhythms of a vanishing world amidst ever-present threats of geological rupture and encroaching modernity, Ixcanul navigates the precariousness of female i...
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The Cave of the Yellow Dog
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Byambasuren Davaa • Mongolia-Germany • 2005
Nansal is the eldest daughter of a nomadic family. One the way home from school one day, she happens upon a black and white puppy, naming him Zochor (Spot). Her father immediately refuses to allow the dog to stay, however, fearing that i...
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Tulpan
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Sergey Dvortsevoy • 2008 • Kazakhstan
Tulpan captures the rhythms of nomadic existence in a surreal and barren landscape, revealing a starkly beautiful, if not vanishing way of life
Upon completion of his Russian naval service, Asa returns to the windswept Kazakhstani steppe wher...