Nenets Vs Gas Siberia’s Last Nomadic Herders In Jeopardy Documentary Movie

Nenets Vs Gas Siberia’s Last Nomadic Herders In Jeopardy Documentary Movie Trailer HD – Plot synopsis: .In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal Peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone – a symbol of Russia’s status as an energy superpower. Here, the discovery of massive gas deposits has whetted the appetites of oil corporations like Novatek, TOTAL and the Chinese National Petroleum Corp. But the Yamal Peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here for over 200 generations. Every year, Vassily and his brigade undertake a 1,500 kilometre journey across the peninsula. But for how much longer? Can they survive this industrialization?

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“Beyond the incontestable ethnographic interest of his film, Sergio Ghizzardi has effectively captured the fundamental importance that the arctic region has assumed in Russia […] Rather than reducing his subject matter to a predictable opposition between native people and exploitative industry, the director digs deeper, opening new angles of inquiry, and the documentary is particularly informative regarding changes observed in the Yamal peninsula.”
~ Télérama, November 2023