In Kazakhstan’s Altai, a village built on faith adjusted to doctrine and now, in the wake of collapse, rebuilds in the shadow of what remains.

Korobikha is a small village in the Kazakh Altai, originally founded by Old Believers chasing a place to live by their faith. Decades later it was absorbed into the Soviet plan. When that plan collapsed, the village thinned out. The ones who stayed did what they’ve always done: they worked, they leaned on each other, and they learned to live with less.

The film keeps a steady distance. Primarily observing, occasionally questioning. We don’t chase explanations or declare heroes. We listen. We notice how distance shapes a life, and how community closes that distance a little. Climate change is not a chart; it’s a ruined harvest and a spring that won’t settle. History isn’t a timeline; it’s a road out of town that many took and a few did not.

Korobikha is not a ruin. It’s a place that learned to live after the big words went quiet. The film asks a simple question with no tidy answer: what does it mean to stay when the system leaves, and how do people make a life from what’s left?

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