Karina

Karina (2024) is available to watch online on iFILM — the true story of a four-year-old girl who survived twelve days alone in the Yakutian taiga with only a puppy for company. Director Marianna Siegen reconstructed a 2014 search that gripped Russia and made international headlines. The village only realized Karina Chikitova was missing on day three: everyone assumed she had left with her father.

More than seventy volunteers combed the forests of Yakutia for nearly two weeks. No food, no warm clothes, no shoes — just a puppy named Naida. On day twelve, even the most experienced rescue teams were losing hope.

Sofia Pribylykh plays Karina in this Russian-Turkish co-production. What makes the film work isn't the suspense — you likely know the outcome going in — it's the precision of how it reconstructs something that should have been impossible. A bronze statue of the girl and her dog now stands at Yakutsk airport, and this film shows you why that monument exists. Stream Karina (2024) on iFILM.