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Baigal Nuur

Directed by Alisi Telengut
Canada / Germany, 2023 (animation, 9 minutes, colour, Buryat)
Also known as "Lake Baikal"

Film Description:
"The formation of Lake Baikal in Siberia is reimagined, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language."
-- alisitelengut.com (source)

Film Description:
"In this remarkably tactile animation, Alisi Telengut reimagines the formation of a sacred lake in Siberia and draws connections between an endangered Indigenous language and matters of history, ecology, and humanity."
-- Toronto International Film Festival (source)


Film Credits (partial):
Written by: Alisi Telengut
Participants: Marina Dorzhieva
Animation: Alisi Telengut
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Notes about Baigal Nuur

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