Phenomenon - The Soul Solace of Yuri Petrovich
A film about people who dwell in Siberian isolation. It is under these difficult living conditions, here in the center of not only the taiga, but also of Russia’s numbing money, aggressive business and TV static, that…
In the Lands of Silence / Nikolai and Ludmila/
A poetic filmed portrait of two people living in Siberia – “at the end of the world.”They have already lived through much, but still have a ways to go in life…they raised children, but they now live differently and…
Waiting for the Reindeer Yoke
The final piece of four-part Polarion series introduces us to the Izhem people. Time flows as slowly as the Izhma River in this remote part of northern Russia. Consequently, a visit by Canadian students or Czech…
Them, Us and Skitskoj /A Dialogue in the Editing Room/
The island Skitskoj is located on the North European patr of Russia, in an inaccessible forest on Pizma River, in the Pechora river basin. The Old Believers' community lives there - hidden from civilization and the…
VORGA - A Path of Two Banks
A documentary film about a dream, tundra and a nomadic nation of European Nenets. Vorga is the Nenets' sacred trail, which the herdsmen have used for centuries to move their herds across the tundra, all the way to the…
The Legend of the Bird's Egg
Zdeněk N. Bričkovský founded the DÓMfilm company to produce documentary films about the life and culture of small nations. Since 2003 he has been working on a three-part documentary about the Republic of Komi, a small…