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Competition program
Competition program
Shamanic lessons for beginners
  • 12+
  • 73 min
  • Russian
  • English
Watch at Artdoc.media
The story of a strange friendship between the Tuvan shaman Chochagar and the American psychologist Alex, who studies shamanic practices and wants to open his Third Eye. A joint journey through the Places of Power will forever change their lives.

Festivals:

- International festival of author's documentary films "ArtDocFest" (2017, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Riga)
- International Film Festival "Eurasia" (2018, Kazakhstan, Astana)
- Russian Film Festival "Window to Europe" (2018, Russia, Vyborg)
- International Documentary Film Festival "Flaertiana" (2018, Russia, Perm)
- International festival ""Days of ethnographic cinema"" (2018, Russia, Moscow)
- Batumi International Art-House Film Festival (2018, Georgia, Batumi)
- Sochi International Film Festival and Film Award (SIFFA), Special Prize (2018, Russia, Sochi)
- International Film Festival ""Ethnografilm Paris"" (2019, France, Paris)
- Documentary Film Festival "Novaya Gazeta" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Millennium Festival (2019, Belgium, Brussels)
- Moscow International Film Festival (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- Russian Documentary Film Festival in New York RusDocFilmFest-3W (2019, USA, New York)
- National telecinema forum "Native paths" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- International Film Festival "Fathers and Children", Special Prize in the nomination "Educational film" (2019, Russia, Orel)
- Kratovo Ethnological documentary Film Festival (2019, Macedonia, Skopje)
- International Human Rights Film Festival "Stalker" (2019, Russia, Moscow)
- On The Road Film Festival (2020, Italy, Rome)
- International Festival of Audiovisual Anthropology (2020, Russia, Moscow)
Film crew
  • Director:
    Svetlana Stasenko
  • Screenwriter:
    Svetlana Stasenko
  • Cinematographer:
    Irina Uralskaya
  • Producer:
    Vlad Ketkovich, Lisa Antonova, Svetlana Stasenko, Ksenia Kuleshova, Oksana Barkovskaya
Information
  • Theme:
    Travel, Psychology, Mysticism, Philosophy
  • Film studio:
    Студия Пассажир, Фонд этногеографических исследований, Mamaki Production INC, Формат ТВ
  • Genre:
    Tragicomedy
  • Country of action:
    Russia
  • Period of action:
    2017
  • Language:
    Russian
  • Subtitles:
    English
  • Artdocfest 2017
    Moskva - Sankt-Peterburg - Riga
  • Russian festivals
    Mezhdunarodnyy festival' dokumental'nogo kino "Flaertiana" (Perm')
  • Winner of russian festivals
    Special'nyy Priz na Sochinskom Mezhdunarodnom Kinofestivale SIFFA (Sochi)
  • International festivals
    Festival' rossiyskogo dokumental'nogo kino v N'yu-Yorke RusDocFilmFest-3W (N'yu-York)