My personal favourite work of his is "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga". Most of the people are doing immediate purposeful work and are much more present. There is so much resilience (the bear destroyed hut), and there is also tragedy in it as well (the fire).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Ta...
Yes, I also love how it shows the seasons and the practical work involved in the lives of people living in the taiga through the year.
Totally different but Little Dieter Needs to Fly is one of my favorites
I like that one as well. I just rewatched it again. One of the trappers in the movie is Mikhail Tarkovsky and I just learned he is actually the nephew nephew Andrei Tarkovsky, the film director.