Father, Son and Holy Torum Tuesday, October 26 7:30pm Textor Hall, Ithaca College

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This event is FREE and Open to the Public

with Professor Thomas Shevory A gripping family drama lies at the heart of this remarkable film about the Khanty people of Western Siberia. This traditionally nomadic people were forced to turn over their lands to the ecologically devastating post-Cold War Russian agricultural machine and their once thriving population has now been reduced to fewer than 4,000. The brutal results of this drive to fuel the industrial blitz are shown in the story of the son of a shaman, Petja; a young man who abandoned his life with the Khanty to become the director of the oil and gas companies' "program on indigenous peoples." Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival. Directed by Mark Soosaar. 1998, 1 hr 30 min. Cosponsored by the Departments of Environmental Studies and Political Science of Ithaca College

For more information about this film, visit Mark Soosaar's Home Page

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