Life of Ivanna Review: A Stark, Striking Portrait of a Tough Tundra Nomad Life of Ivanna Review: A Stark, Striking Portrait of a Tough Tundra Nomad
A magnetic 26-year-old mother of five compels attention and repels judgment in a rigorously realist snapshot of life in the Arctic tundra.
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Running time: Running time: 80 MIN.
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The film you expect from Renato Borrayo Serrano’s documentary study of a Nenets woman raising five young children in the Arctic tundra is, in a subtly momentous way, not the one Serrano delivers with the unflinching “Life of Ivanna.” When it has become almost an article of faith that the purpose of such ethnographic portraits is to create empathy with cultures and lifestyles entirely foreign to our own all of us chasing that little puff of serotonin we get from a reassuring, “deep down, we are all the same” moral it is perversely admirable to insist so proudly on a subject�
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PRAGUE: Eight projects developed in the dok.incubator workshop in 2020 were introduced in a live online broadcast on 9 February 2020 in a carefully curated presentation. They were selected for their unique cinematic potential from over one hundred submitted rough cuts. The films were intensively developed throughout 2020 with tutors and experts during and in between three sessions and are all ready for release in the near future.
The year 2020 marked the ninth edition of dok.incubator. Six films from three previous years premiered at Sundance, two of them awarded. Three were launched at Berlinale, one nominated for an Emmy. Last year four dok.incubator films were selected by their respective countries to represent them at the 2021 Academy Awards. As the CEO of dok.incubator Andrea Prenghyová commented, every documentary production presented at this Preview has been hit by coronavirus consequences. The Preview itself took place virtually with modera