About the Film "Autumn On Ob River"

   Director: Janno Simm
   Year of release: 2004
   Duration: 46'
   Country of production:
Norway/Estonia/Russia
   Original language: Khanty, Russian (subtitled into English and Estonian)
   Format: DVCAM, available on Beta SP, miniDV, DVD and VHS(PAL)

  Near the mouth of Ob River in North-Western Siberia live the northernmost families of 22,500 Khanty people.
In conditions of harsh polar environment and post-Soviet unpredictability, coping is a challenge.

  Like many of their neighbours-kinsmen, the Tobolko family is a part of a fishing brigade. In order to survive, when pay is scarce and even that has not been paid for months, they employ the traditional economical model of Arctic, where hunting and reindeer herding add value to fishing activities. The film follows the autumnal activity of a Khanty fisherman family: end of main fishing season — moving over to winter settlement, hunting and reindeer herding activities. There is a story about indigenous accountancy — an unique balance system between the fishing and reindeer herding Khanty, knowledge of fishing and hunting grounds.