Green Film Fest: Genesis 2.0

Genesis 2.0 observes the harsh and dangerous life of mammoth hunters on the remote New Siberian Islands in the far north of Siberia. Here they dig in the primordial earth for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is gold rush fever in the air because, with a 2017 Chinese ban on elephant ivory, the prices for this white gold have never been so high. But the thawing permafrost unveils more than just precious ivory. Sometimes the hunters find an almost completely preserved mammoth carcass with fur, liquid blood and muscle tissue on which arctic foxes gnaw. Such finds are magnets for high-tech Russian and South Korean clone researchers in search of mammoth cells with the greatest possible degree of intact DNA.