6′

2016

Nutag-Homeland is a visual poem and surrealist requiem for the Kalmyk people who were mass deported by the USSR between 1943-1957. Half of them died before being allowed to return home.

The film manifests itself as an archetype with frame by frame hand-painted imagery, bringing back an example of human history on the eternal theme of diaspora, and the loss of the homeland. More importantly, by referencing the past and the lost, it poses a critical resistance to the current socio-political situations in the world.