Yakutia is a semiautonomous republic in North-Eastern Russia – and home and headquarters to an incredibly dynamic regional film industry that, like the people and the place itself, are greatly influenced and guided by folklore, legends, and myths. Ich-chi roughly means spirit, and that is exactly what haunts a family of farmers between tradition and modern life. Director Kostas Marsaan made an essential folk horror thriller shaped by the cold barren landscape of Yakutia, bathed in night-black and blood-red, and inhabited by the ghosts of the past.