Lake Baikal - Baigal Nuur
Category: Animated Short
Length: 9 minutes
Technique: Stop Motion
Genre: Documentary
Director, Writer: Alisi Telengut
Producers: Alisi Telengut, Fabian Driehorst
Production Company: Fabian&Fred
Funding: Canada Counci for the Arts, IKF, Rudolf Augstein Foundation
Countries: Canada, Germany
The formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language.
Awards/Honors
Viborg Animation Festival - Diversity Award
GoShort - Best Animation (Oscar qualified)
German Film Critics' Award: Nomination
Film Rating Board Germany: Particularly valuable
Nouveau Cinema: Dada Prize
Golden Ger Film Festival: Best Animation
Festivals
2024 Frederikstad Animation Festival
2024 Haiwaii International Film Festival
2024 Viborg Animation Festival
2024 Bodø Biennale
2024 Calgary International Film Festival
2024 Arizona International Film Festival
2024 Rising of Lusitania - AnimaDoc Film Festival
2024 Quebec International Ethnographic Film Festival
2024 goEast Film Festival Wiesbaden
2024 Arizona Film Festival
2024 ITFS Stuttgart Animation Festival
2024 RiverRun Film Festival
2024 Go Shorts Nijmegen
2024 Animation Dingle
2024 Beirut Animation Nughts
2024 Dawson City International Short Film Festival
2024 Whitney Museum of American Art New York
2024 Santo Domingo Global Film Festival
2024 Portland EcoFilm Festival
2024 Sundance Film Festival
2023 Tofuzi Animation Festival
2023 PÖFF Black Nights
2023 Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
2023 Uppsala Short Film Festival
2023 Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles
2023 imagineNATIVE
2023 Videomedeja Festival
2023 Nouveau Cinema Montreal
2023 Vancouver Film Festival
2023 Encounters Film Festival
2023 Toronto International Film Festival
2023 Annecy Animation Festival
2023 Golden Ger Film Festival