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Season of Dying Water

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Season of Dying Water

2022

1h 2m

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Shot in and around Yakutsk, in a remote region of Siberia, this film wrestles with the complex realities of a people and place facing continual, rapid transformation under Russia’s drive for resource extraction.

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Directed by: Chelsea Tuggle
Svetlana Romanova

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