Becoming a Man - Tracking the White Reindeer

200852 minFilm: Documentary

Direction: Hamid Sardar

Production: Manuel Catteau

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In the snow-covered plains of northern Mongolia, the Tsaatan nomads are a proud and free people who live off hunting and gathering. They travel on the backs of reindeer, on which they completely depend to survive in this hostile and remote land.

The Tsaatan are passionate about their reindeer, who torment their breeders by regularly escaping into the forest to rejoin with their wild cousins.

Subject categories


  • Developing Countries > Asia
  • Children and Youth > Coming of Age Stories
  • Family Studies/Home Economics > Adolescent Development
  • Diversity > Diversity in Communities
  • Geography > Human Geography
  • Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development

Credits


producer
Manuel Catteau
director
Hamid Sardar
music
Olivier Bernet