International Film Festival “Days of Ethnographic Cinema” takes place in Moscow (Russia) since 2009, organized by several scientific institutions, such as Russian State University for the Humanities, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Higher School of Economics and others. It is also an international communication platform that gives an opportunity to Russian and international scholars to exchange the latest results of their projects in the field of anthropology and related disciplines. The festival isn’t only an academic but also an educational project that is also interesting for general public. We have already held nine film festival demonstrated the wide number of anthropological topics for example Anthropology of Аrt, Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment, Processes of Migration, Anthropology of Religion, Anthropology of Work and Labor and etc. Today the film festival collection includes the numerous ethnographic films all over the world and from North Asia in particular. The films representing the human and animal relation in the North Asian region are in the focus of the report. The films form the collection of the international film festival program (2009 - 2022) represent the variety of home and wild animals in the region and their complex role in local culture.