Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Short Film 2023, Haulout follows a solitary man on the desolate Siberian Arctic coast, anticipating a timeless natural gathering.

Synopsis

Oscar-nominated for Best Documentary Short Film 2023, Haulout follows a solitary man on the desolate Siberian Arctic coast, anticipating a timeless natural gathering. As warming seas and rising temperatures disrupt the expected event, he finds himself grappling with unsettling changes. 

Directors: Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev | Country: Russia | Running Time: 25 min | Languages: with English subtitles


Screening Details

  • Festival Screening: 17 September 2023

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About the Filmmakers

Maxim Arbugaev and Evgenia ArbugaevaEvgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev are sister and brother, born in the town of Tiksi, located on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Yakutia.Their work often looks into their homeland—the Arctic, discovering and capturing the remote worlds and people who inhabit them. Evgenia is a London-based documentary photographer, a National Geographic Society Fellow, and has won awards including the International Center of Photography Infinity Award. Maxim is a director, cinematographer, and producer, whose previous film Genesis 2.0. (2018) won the Sundance Jury Award for Cinematography. evgeniaarbugaeva.com