Premiered simultaneously in Vision du Réel’s International Competition and at Cph: Dox, “Holgut” is a documentary-fiction hybrid which takes viewers on an immersive double journey deep within the Siberian tundra. Prague-based Filmotor is handling international sales.
The film follows the journey of two brothers who travel north upriver to hunt the last wild reindeer and of a scientist who joins mammoth ivory hunters in the hope of finding DNA and one day cloning the creature.
Intent on making a film about climate change and what she describes as “the idea of extinction and de-extinction,”director Liesbeth de Ceulaer set out to find the ideal setting, which brought her to Siberia.
“The mammoth is the iconic ambassador of the ice age which became extinct due to a combination of rise in temperature and of humans going into their territories. Now, once again due to the rise in temperatures, their carcasses...
The film follows the journey of two brothers who travel north upriver to hunt the last wild reindeer and of a scientist who joins mammoth ivory hunters in the hope of finding DNA and one day cloning the creature.
Intent on making a film about climate change and what she describes as “the idea of extinction and de-extinction,”director Liesbeth de Ceulaer set out to find the ideal setting, which brought her to Siberia.
“The mammoth is the iconic ambassador of the ice age which became extinct due to a combination of rise in temperature and of humans going into their territories. Now, once again due to the rise in temperatures, their carcasses...
- 4/25/2021
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
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