Genesis 2.0

Genesis 2.0

2DCS/ES12
Director:Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev
Premiere:11. March 2019
Length:113 minutes
Genre:Document

Director: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev

Summer has come to the New Siberian Islands, along with a group of hunters with it. They are looking for white gold – mammoth tusks. At the other end of that same reality, a mammoth game at playing God is just starting.

A kilo of high-quality mammoth ivory costs $1000. Every year, Yakut men risk their lives to find some. Young filmmaker Maxim spends an Arctic summer with them in a captivating but raw landscape. He exchanges letters with his colleague, Christian, busy in the scientific world as he follows various genetic projects which might resurrect the woolly mammoth – or create completely new hybrid beasts. This film, which has already received many awards, including a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival, offers a unique opportunity to enter a world of primitive nature and futuristic science. And where they intersect there are some fundamentally urgent existential questions.

Length: 113 min

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 11. March 2019
World premiere date: 12. July 2018

Country of origin:

  • Switzerland

Director: Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev

Summer has come to the New Siberian Islands, along with a group of hunters with it. They are looking for white gold – mammoth tusks. At the other end of that same reality, a mammoth game at playing God is just starting.

A kilo of high-quality mammoth ivory costs $1000. Every year, Yakut men risk their lives to find some. Young filmmaker Maxim spends an Arctic summer with them in a captivating but raw landscape. He exchanges letters with his colleague, Christian, busy in the scientific world as he follows various genetic projects which might resurrect the woolly mammoth – or create completely new hybrid beasts. This film, which has already received many awards, including a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival, offers a unique opportunity to enter a world of primitive nature and futuristic science. And where they intersect there are some fundamentally urgent existential questions.

Year: 2018
Local premiere date: 11. March 2019
World premiere date: 12. July 2018

Country of origin:

  • Switzerland