Two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tamara Kotevska (“Honeyland”), whose latest feature, “ The Tale of Silyan ,” premieres at the Venice Film Festival , is readying her next project, a Siberia-lensed documentary set in the world of the indigenous Dolgan people. The director will be pitching it this week at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which takes place Aug. 29 – 31.

“The Mammoths That Escaped the Kingdom of Erlik Khan” follows Vladik, a young reindeer hunter raised in the harsh, punishing landscape of the Yakut Tundra, who stands at a crossroads: whether to carry on the traditional ways he’s inherited from his father, Roma, or to join the hunters pursuing a more modern, capitalist lifestyle by excavating and selling the buried tusks of the extinct woolly mammoth.

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