HSE x ITS Cinema Poster Competition 2025
Haulout (2022) directed by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev
Haulout (Russian: Выход) is a 2022 Russian-British co-production short documentary film written, directed and produced by brother and sister duo Maxim Arbugaev, Evgenia Arbugaeva.
The documentary is about the Russian scientist Maxim Chakilev, who observes the life of walruses at Cape Heart-Stone in the Chukchi Sea. The international title of the film refers to the term hauling-out, which the science describes as the pinnipeds going ashore for resting or mating.
Produced by Albireo Films, the film had its world premiere in February 2022 at 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.
It was selected for Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film and subsequently shortlisted and nominated for 95th Academy Awards in said category.
[1] First Alternative Poster
Taking the facial expression of the main character who feels sorry for the walruses who died because of global warming. plus the melting ice land behind his face. and there is a silhouette of the walrus on the main character’s head. and also the title text that melts and breaks because of global warming.
[2] second Alternative Poster
shows the main character looking at his house from a distance while feeling sad. He wanted to leave his house because he was disappointed with the greedy and greedy actions of humans. he stands on the rocks of the Russian land that are melting because the ice is melting. then there is a silhouette of a walrus who is sad because he lost his home because of human actions.
[3] Third Alternative Poster
the main object is the head of the main character who becomes an ice island to accommodate walruses who lose their homes due to global warming. and his face is almost submerged which means the condition of the earth is getting worse and human safety is threatened because the ice poles are melting.
[4] Fourth Alternative Poster
There is a main character who comes out of a door while carrying a flashlight. the atmosphere is tense because there is terror from a walrus who wants to eat him. the walrus describes his feelings of anger towards humans for destroying their homes due to the effects of global warming.
[5] Fifth Alternative Poster
someone with a flashlight in the dark that highlights something. and sees a pile of walrus teeth. which indicates their increasingly narrow habitat due to human activities that trigger global warming. There is a dark and tense atmosphere that shows the bleak life of the walruses today.
[6] Sixth Alternative
showing a walrus tooth held by a human hand that has pity for the life of the walrus today. where the human hand shows its little finger which shows a human promise to maintain a better life on earth.
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