- year : 2018
- country : Russia, USA
- timing : 73:48'
- genre : documentary
- producer : Svetlana Stasenko
written by Svetlana Stasenko
produced by Liza Antonova, Svetlana Stasenko, Vlad Ketkovich
DoP Irina Uralskaya
music by Arnold Giskin
sound by Sorin Apostol
editors Svetlana Stasenko, Svetlana Pechenykh, Polina Polovetskaya
production company: Studio "Passenger", Foundation for Ethnographic Studies
It’s a story of a strange friendship between Tuvin shaman Chochagar Kes-Kem and American psychologist Alex, who came to Tuva to learn shamanic practices and to open his Inner Eye. They visit Places of Power and the strongest Tuvin shamans. The deeper they plunge into the World of Tuvin shamans, the more confusing and contradictory their relationships become, and things seem to go beyond control.
- INPUT International Television Screening Conference (2017, Russia, Moscow)
- International Documentary Film Festival "ArtDokFest" (2017, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
- International Film Festival "Eurasia" (2018, Kazakhstan, Astana)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2018, Russia, Vyborg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flahertiana" (2018, Russia, Perm)
- International Festival "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2018, Georgia, Batumi)
- Sochi International Film Festival and Film Awards (SIFFA), Special Press Award (2018, Russia, Sochi)
- International Film Festival "Ethnografilm Paris" (2019, France, Paris)
- Documentary Film Festival "Novaya Gazeta" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Millenium" (2019, Belgium, Brussels)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W (2019, USA, New York)
- National TV Film Forum “Mother Trails” (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Kratovo Ethnological documentary Film Festival (2019, Macedonia, Skopje)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Prize (2019, Russia, Orel)
- On The Road Film Festival (2020, Italy, Rome)
- Stalker International Human Rights Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology "Days of Ethnographic Cinema" (2020, Russia, Moscow)
- Festival of ethnographic films "Crimean frame" (2021, Russia, Simferopol)
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Svetlana Stasenko was born in Izhevsk, Russia. Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University as a journalist and Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors (VKSR) as a film director.
Works in both fiction and documentary films. Collaborated with companies such as "Rock", "Good production", "Risk", "Tskaro", "Forward", "Gamma", "RWS", "Etnoland", "Passenger" and others. Member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia and Directors Guild of Russia, Member of the International Academy of Television and Radio, winner of Russian and International Film Festivals.
FILMOGRAPHY:
2018 - "Shamanic lessons for beginners", documentary
2015 - "The Piano", documentary
2014 - "Julia and the Shamans", documentary
2013 - "The drug addict’s diary" documentary
2013 - "The Tram Romance", documentary
2012 - "Through the needles of coniferous trees", documentary
2011 - "I have no blood", documentary
2009 - "Uplifting", documentary
2009 - "Free People" documentary
2007 - "V. I. Lenin. The myths keep secret about it", documentary
2006 - "Always your Andrei Mironov", documentary
2005 - "Maya Kristalinskaya", documentary
2004 - Mirage over Cupid, a documentary
2004 - The Baikal Trap, documentary
2004 - "Angel on the sidelines" documentary
2002 - The Caryatids, documentary
2001 - "Boulevard Passions", documentary
2001 - "Spring is coming", documentary
2001 - "Karambolina", documentary
2000 - "Sliver", documentary
2000 - "Space Wanderer", documentary
2000 - "Alexander F. Sklyar. Song", documentary
1998 - "No need to pity us", documentary
1997 - "Rolling poet", documentary
1994 - "Frozen Time", documentary
1992 - "Parabola", documentary
