Russia, 2025 / 39 min Director: Anna Koryakovtseva 12+
The team of the project "Man and Boat" went to Chukotka to the Eskimos to record the construction of a unique boat - a baidara made of walrus skin. It was believed that the technology of building a cargo baidara was lost. But our film crew managed to find hunters who still remember the skills of their ancestors. And viewers have a unique opportunity to see all the stages of the birth of a boat that was built thousands of years ago. The process of making a vessel is incredibly complex. To make just one such boat, months of preparation are needed. And that`s not all. Builders will have to risk their lives on the hunt, reckon with changing weather. And even rely on higher powers. An incredible journey awaits you, after which you will definitely look at even an ordinary boat with completely different eyes.
Anna Koryakovtseva (Russia) Russian film and television producer, member of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia, traveler, director, laureate of the «Pride of the Nation» award, laureate of the TEFI-2023 award in the category "Best Travel Program". The main theme of her work is the ethnography of Russia, the traditions and customs of its peoples. Under her leadership, within the framework of the «Land of People» project, over eight years of filming, 38 film expeditions were conducted, more than 100 settlements were visited, and over 1,000 hours of unique ethnographic video material were shot about 85 indigenous peoples and ethnographic groups of Russia in 38 regions of Russia from Kamchatka to Karelia, from Yamal to Dagestan. Seventeen expeditions were conducted in the Arctic and regions equated to the Arctic.