ANGRY SPIRITS

90 min /Germany, Mongolia/ No-Fiction / 2023.

Director: Iris Pakula
Producer:  Gebrueder beetz filmproduktion / Arte
Cinematographer: Iván Castiñeiras.
Editor: Christian R. Timmann.
Sound Director: Zendmene-Erdene Ichinnorov.
Sound Design: Pierre Brand.
Music: Guillermo Martorell.

Ainur is a young mother that lives in Ulaanbaatar and works as a stripper in a nightclub. She feels sick, lonely and lost and believes that something is threathing her, so she sets off a journey through the desert. Then she will go back to the birthplace of her ancestors and will get in touch with her roots and the spirits of nature.

AWARDS

Excellence Visual Anthropology Award, Ethnocineca’25

Mention Best Director, Sole Luna Docs’25

 

MAIN SELECTIONS

Festival dei Popoli (IT), 2024.

Nordic Docs Film Festival (NOR) 2025.

Sole Luna Doc Film Festival (IT), 2025.

NNW International Film Festival, Warszawa’25

International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade (SER) 2025.

Ethnocineca Film Festival (AUS), 2025.

Bremen Ethnographic days 2026

Germany cinema tour 12 cinemas (April-May 2025)



 

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