Directing
Evgenia Arbugaeva
Place of birth
Tiksi, Russia
Known for
Directing
Credits
3 titles
Evgenia Arbugaeva is a documentary photographer based in London, UK. She is a National Geographic Society Fellow and a recipient of the International Center of Photography Infinity Award and the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (Awards for outstanding photography). Her work has been exhibited internationally and appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Time Magazine, and the National Geographic magazine among others. HAULOUT came out of the photography project Evgenia did in Chukotka for a few years. The film is her directorial debut. She was nominated at the 95th Academy Awards in Documentary (Short Subject) for the film Haulout (2022).
Known for
7.6On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
Haulout
2024
NRIn the remote Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous Sakha scientist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost. Searching for an ancient creature, he makes his way through the dangerous, claustrophobic caves to the mythical realm of the Underworld.
Chuuraa
2026
Behind the camera
7.6On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
Haulout
2024
7.6On a remote coast of the Russian Arctic in a wind-battered hut, a lonely man waits to witness an ancient gathering. But warming seas and rising temperatures bring an unexpected change, and he soon finds himself overwhelmed.
Haulout
2024
NRIn the remote Siberian Arctic, an Indigenous Sakha scientist descends into the depths of the melting permafrost. Searching for an ancient creature, he makes his way through the dangerous, claustrophobic caves to the mythical realm of the Underworld.
Chuuraa
2026