Conflict Tiger

Directed by: Sasha Snow  2005 UK/Sweden  61 minutes
Showing: Tuesday February 14th 2012 - Tiger Night
Location: Pacific Cinematheque
Tickets $18 online / $20 doors

In the forests of the Russian Far East, an inexperienced and foolhardy poacher triggers an infamous series of tiger attacks on people. The authorities call upon the services of Yuri Trush, a specialist in tracking and eliminating tigers that have lost their fear of man.

‘Conflict Tiger’ takes Yuri’s most notorious pursuit of a ‘man-eating’ tiger as the basis for a documentary thriller.  The film combines dramatic reconstruction with extraordinary archive footage shot by Yuri himself as events unfolded.

From the aftermath of this epic confrontation, the film emerges as a parable which challenges the cozy illusions of the traditional ‘big cat’ natural history by setting the animal’s precarious situation against the pressing needs of human survival.

Director Sasha Snow
Sasha Snow was an architectural photographer before joining the BBC as a film editor in 1991.  In 1997 he won the BAFTA/Post Office Scholarship for Best Student Film while studying documentary direction at The National Film & Television School. In 2000 he graduated with his first film in Russia, ‘A St. Petersburg Symphony’. In 2002 he completed his first major international co-production, ‘Arctic Crime & Punishment’, a film which followed a police murder investigation and trial in a remote Greenlandic village. He also works as a documentary cameraman, photographer and teacher.