YAKUTIA — BETWEEN THE WORLDS

Yakut cinema is experiencing a heyday comparable to that of Iran and South Korea. Director Vladimir Kocharyan returns home after his studies in St Petersburg to explore the origins of Yakut cinema and his roots in the Sakha Republic, the only one in Russia with an independent film industry.

VLADIMIR KOCHARYAN

 

Documentary filmmaker, curator. Born and raised in Yakutia in the family of an Armenian father and Yakut mother. For the last 10 years, Vladimir has worked as a program curator for many retrospectives, festivals, and educational film projects. He worked as a creative producer at the "Lendoc" St. Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, and as executive director of the oldest Russian cinema magazine “Iskusstvo Kino”. Currently lives in France and works as a film festival curator of Golden Apricot film festival. In 2024, two of his books dedicated to Yakut cinema will be published in Finland and Russia. Among the films made "History of Russian Cinema. Birth of a Myth", 2023 and "Yakutia - Between the Worlds", 2024.

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