Synopsis

This award-winning documentary film, directed by Christian Frei (War Photographer) and Maxim Arbugaev, observes the harsh and dangerous life of so-called mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands in the far north of Siberia. The thawing permafrost unveils more than just precious ivory – sometimes the hunters find an almost completely preserved mammoth carcass with fur, liquid blood and muscle tissue on which arctic foxes gnaw. Such finds are magnets for high-tech Russian and South Korean clone researchers in search of mammoth cells with the greatest possible degree of intact DNA. Their mission could be part of a science-fiction plot: they want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life (à la Jurassic Park) and resurrect it as a species. And that’s just the beginning. Worldwide, biologists are working on re-inventing life. The resurrection of the mammoth is a manifestation of this next great technological revolution. We will be showing this documentary in partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland in Singapore.

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