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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.
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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