INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOX
Chuuraa
Director
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Producer
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Cinematographers
Maxim Arbugaev
Vladimir Egorov
Editors
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Joshua Chadwick
Sound
Anastasiia Frolova
Website
Contact
Rise and Shine
[email protected]
2026
United Kingdom
17 min
Color
In the remote Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous Sakha scientist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost. Searching for an ancient creature, he makes his way through the dangerous caves to the mythical realm of the Underworld.
Directors' Biography
Evgenia Arbugaeva is a photographer and filmmaker born in Tiksi, a town on the shore of the Laptev Sea in the Republic of Sakha. In her work she often looks into her homeland — the Arctic — capturing its remote worlds and the people who inhabit them.
Other films in INTERNATIONAL SHORT DOX
An Impossible Address
Compact Disc
Dragica, Danica, Duška / or / When Zora, the Goddess of Dawn, Opens the Gates of Heaven for Sun to Emerge
Elegy for the Forgotten, on an Endless War
Escalation
Forgotten Spaceman
I couldn't draw you a map
kiss kiss bang bang
Miriam
Normal Planet
Pacifico
Sawyer Avenue, Sunday Afternoon
Singing of the Evening Stars
Two Pids
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