Genesis 2.0 (Switzerland/China/Russia/South Korea/USA, 2018, Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev)

This event is part of the 2019 Cleveland Humanities Festival: Nature.

This provocative and unsettling new documentary focuses on the hunters who harvest valuable tusks of long-dead woolly mammoths in the thawing permafrost of the remote New Siberian Islands. It also spotlights the Russian and Korean biologists who seek to clone this extinct animal, Jurassic Park-style, from the completely preserved carcasses that are occasionally discovered. “A double-stranded helix of a real-life thriller, chilling and unforgettable.” –The Hollywood Reporter. Cleveland premiere. Subtitles. DCP. 112 min. www.genesis-two-point-zero.com/

This event is sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque.