Vorga - A Path of Two Banks

Zdeněk Bričkovský's work focuses on documentary films about the life and culture of small disappearing nations. His Legend of the Bird's Egg described the life of the inhabitants of the Komi Republic and was presented at last year's One World Festival.

Now the filmmaker has returned to the north of Russia. On this occasion, he spends time with the nomadic Nenets people, who follow a herd of reindeer for their livelihood. Nothing but an oil-company helicopter appears every once in a while over this desolate land.

In this way, a journey begins to get to know a traditional, disappearing world on a route that runs between modernity and tradition, a path between two banks. This lyrical documentary is placed in a poetic framework. Lyrical panoramas of the landscape are accompanied by the rustling of the wind and a traditional musical score.

Self-layered images in combination with the naive paintings of a local amateur artist, folk legends and rituals bring the viewer to a point where the past and the present merge in the centre of a magical world, which is so different from contemporary life.

The screening with the personal presence of the director Zdeněk Bričkovský! The partner of the screening is human rights documentary film festival One World.