The Land of the Whispering Stars (2022)

Directed by Ayaal Adamov
Documentary, short (15 min)

SYNOPSIS

The shores of the Laptev Sea, a place of endless tundra and nothing except the tiny Evenk village of Naiba. How do these people live there? What do they do?

The original score is written by Elena Rykova in collaboration with the members of the ensemble Musikfabrik: Marco Blaauw, (double-bell trumpet), Christine Chapman (double-bell horn), and Melvyn Poore (tuba).

Festivals and Awards:

  • Tromsø International Film Festival (Tromsø, Norway, 13 July 2023 – 15 July 2023)

  • Ethnografilm (Paris, France, 6 – 10 April, 2023)

  • Story? International Student Documentary Festival (Kork, Ireland, April 2023)

  • Go Short International Short Film Festival (Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 5 Apr 2023 – 9 April 2023)

  • Skábmagovat Indigenous Film Festival (Inari, Finnland, 26 Jan 2023 – 29 Jan 2023)

  • Kinsa (Tumen, Russia, 8 Dec 2022 – 10 Dec 2022)

  • Baikal Festival of Regional Films (Irkutsk, Russia, 5 Dec 2022 – 10 Dec 2022)

  • Kinoproba (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1 Dec 2022 – 5 Dec 2022)

  • Meeting with Russia (Vologda, Russia, 30 Nov 2022 – 4 Dec 2022)

  • Bastau (Almaty, Kazakhstan, 29 Nov 2022 – 3 Dec 2022)

  • Festival of Contemporary Film in Lipetsk (Lipetsk, Russia, 3 Nov 2022 – 7 Nov 2022)

  • North Character (Murmansk, Russia, 17 Nov 2022 – 19 Nov 2022)

  • Best Istanbul Film and Art Festival (Istanbul, Turkey, 1 Nov 2022) - WINNER: Best Short Documentary

  • 33rd Festival of Documentary films “Russia” (Yekaterinburg, Russia, 1 Oct 2022 – 6 Oct 2022) – Special Prize from Ural TV Channel: for preservation and development of TV documentary, Special Jury Prize: for creation of the poetic imagery of Russia

  • Flaertiana (Perm, Russia, 16 Sept 2022 – 22 Sept 2022)

  • The World of Knowledge (Sankt-Petersburg, Russia, 14 Sept 2022 – 18 Sept 2022)

  • Sorrows of Saratov (Saratov, Russia, 8 Sept 2022 – 14 Sept 2022)

  • The Torch of Volgograd (Volgograd, Russia, 27 Aug 2022 – 30 Aug 2022)

  • The Days “VOICES” (Vologda, Russia, 25 Aug 2022 – 28 Aug 2022)

  • São Paulo International Short Film (Sao Paolo, Brasil, 18 Aug 2022 – 28 Aug 2022)

  • Music Festival Cordes sur Ciel (Cordes sur Ciel, France, 29 Jul 2022)