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Back To Siberia

Back To Siberia

Martin heylen travelled across siberia for the human interest programme ‘man bijt hond’. His trek spanned eleven thousands kilometres, from yekaterinburg in the urals, across yakutsk in the north to the mythical port city of vladivostok on the shores of the sea of japan. Along the way, heylen knocked on people’s doors - always random and unannounced - and was offered dinner or even a place to sleep, giving him the chance to record their everyday life stories. The result is a series of short reports under the moniker ‘winter in siberia’. The programme met with a favourable response. Many siberians had never seen a westerner before and many flemish viewers were surprised by the warmth and hospitality of the russians trying to survive in this enormous freezer. 

Martin heylen and his team decided to repeat the journey, this time in summer. The contrast was huge. The winter landscape with its endless plains of snow and ice concealed a surprisingly green country, dotted with thousands of lakes and pools. The frozen rivers the documentary makers had crossed by car in the winter had been transformed into mighty rivers, the lifeblood of the region.

 
 
 
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