Lake Baikal in the dead of winter is the setting for this French drama, where a man leaves the noise of a life he no longer wants and settles into a hut by the shore for a season alone.
What is In The Forests Of Siberia about?
Teddy walks away from a world he can no longer stand and builds a solitary existence in a lakeside hut through a brutal Siberian winter. The first stretch brings a kind of awe at land that modern life has barely touched, but that feeling fades fast against real cold, real hunger, and real isolation. A blizzard nearly ends the experiment for good, until a stranger pulls him out of it — a Russian man who has built his own hidden life in the same forest, for reasons of his own. What begins as a rescue slowly turns into an unlikely bond between two men who have each chosen to disappear from the world they came from.
About the cast
Raphaël Personnaz carries the lead role as Teddy, with Evgeniy Sidikhin playing Aleksei, the reclusive figure who pulls him back from the edge. Director Safy Nebbou builds the film around the two of them and the landscape itself, letting long stretches of near-silence carry as much weight as the dialogue.
Context & significance
The film is a French production shot around the reality of Lake Baikal's deep winter, treating the Siberian setting less as backdrop and more as a presence in its own right, one that tests the hero's certainty about what he thought he was running from. It sits inside a small but durable tradition of stories about voluntary exile, where wilderness strips away noise until only the essential questions are left standing.
Watching In The Forests Of Siberia on Ktime
In The Forests Of Siberia streams on K-Time with a Persian dub, so viewers who would rather watch without reading subtitles have that option ready. A free account is all that is needed to start watching, and the site's Farsi interface makes browsing and picking up the film simple for Persian-speaking audiences.