Happy People (Seasons 1–3)

Happy People (2008) is Dmitry Vasyukov's documentary you can watch online on iFILM. For a full year the camera stays beside trappers and their families in Bakhta, a tiny village on the middle Yenisei deep in the Siberian taiga.

There is no script and no narration pushing emotion at you. Just the rhythm of a hunter's life: the boat, the dog, the sable traps, the cutting of wood, the long winter spent alone with the forest. The daily routine here has barely shifted in centuries, and the film simply watches it unfold through craft, weather and silence. If you are worn out by loud cinema, this slow taiga chronicle lands like a breath of cold clean air. Stream Happy People (2008) online on iFILM.