Haulout

Name: Haulout
Genre: Documentary, Short
Duration: 25 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Maxim Chakilev

2022
25m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.5K

YOUR RATING

Documentary Short

Follows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is takin... Read allFollows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.Follows a man waiting in his hut in the desolate expanse of the Russian Arctic. He is holding out in order to observe a natural event that occurs here, every year, but ocean warming is taking its toll.

Directors
- Maxim Arbugaev
- Evgenia Arbugaeva
Writers
- Maxim Arbugaev
- Evgenia Arbugaeva
Star
- Maxim Chakilev

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

1.5K

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 10 wins & 8 nominations total

Trivia
In a 2023 interview with The Pulse, Evgenia Arbugaeva related what it was like to be amidst thousands of walruses: "It was scary, and it was scary because they're not aggressive animals because especially when they're on the beach, they're in their unnatural environment. So, they're really vulnerable, and actually, they're so easily scared. So, any foreign smell or sound can scare them and kind of send this wave of panic in the whole haulout. So, we had to be really careful actually, not to scare them, not to use the stove, not to produce any smell, not to use a generator, which was quite challenging because we couldn't use batteries, or charge our batteries. But the sound was scary because you could hear the animals struggling, you could hear some voices, like very high-pitched voices of cubs that are looking for their mothers and being separated or being squashed by these bigger animals."

Quotes
Maxim Chakilev: September 7th. Dense fog. Can't see them yet.

Connections
Featured in The Oscars (2023)

User reviews8

Review

Featured review

10/10

Devastatingly reveals the impacts of climate change

Beautifully, quietly shot with a fully immersive soundscape that draws you in from frame one. From there, the film slowly unveils sights and sounds that will haunt your memory - and your conscious - long after its 25 minutes are over, demanding what we as a species are going to do about the mess we've made of the planet.

Even without a note of music, the film achieves a dream-like quality and there are scenes that sear themselves into your retinas and shake you to your core. No spoilers but I am holding fast to "dream-like" over "nightmare-inducing," as the film is not just an indictment of our inaction addressing the man-made climate crisis but a rallying cry to do so before it is too late.

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