Stemmen uit de Toendra - De laatste der Joekagiren

Logline The film is about the Tundra Yukagirs in Yakutia (Siberia) and a dedicated researcher who assists them in recording their language and describing their way of life. Subject In northeastern Siberia, above the Arctic Circle, live the Tundra Yukagirs, nomadic reindeer herders. Sixty-three of them still speak Yukagir, a uniquely musical language that turns melodic as storytellers relate traditional tales of Yukagir history. Cecilia Ode has made repeated trips to the remote corner of eastern Siberia that the Yukagirs call home to capture their language and preserve it for posterity. A diagnosis of metastatic cancer threatened to end these trips, but a period of remission enabled her to return to the land of the Yukagirs once again, perhaps for the last time.