Angry Spirits

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Ainur, a young Mongolian woman and erotic dancer in Ulaanbaatar, feels haunted by dark forces. On the advice of shamans, she returns to the Gobi Desert to make contact with nature spirits.

Year

2024

Length

90 min

Director

Iris Pakulla

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Ainur, a young Mongolian woman and erotic dancer in Ulaanbaatar, feels haunted by dark forces. On the advice of shamans, she returns to the Gobi Desert, the land of her ancestors, to make contact with nature spirits. During her journey through Mongolia, she is confronted with the destruction of the breathtaking landscape. Is this the chaos that is stirring the spirits?

Anthropologist Iris Pakulla has lived and researched in Mongolia for many years. In her hybrid documentary film, she weaves together scenes of Ainur’s everyday life with staged dream sequences. The result is a cinematic artwork that reflects not only Ainur’s search for healing but also the fragile balance between humans and nature.

Written and directed by
Iris Pakulla

Camera
Iván Castiñeiras
Iris Pakulla
Gary Batmunkh

Editor
Christian R. Timmann

Music
Guillermo Martorell

Narrator
Julia Hummer

Archive
Oyu Tolgoi LLC

Commissioning Editor (NDR)
Timo Großpietsch
Monika Schäfer

Angry Spirits
Trailer
  • „Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
    Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
    17.05.2018

In co-production with

  • wdr

Produced by

  • Beetz
  • kobalt

In co-production with

  • ndr

Supported by

  • moin
  • nordmedia
  • pustnik
  • ffa
  • EU Commission
  • FFA Filmförderungsanstalt
  • DFFF
  • medienboard

Supported by

  • media
  • EED
  • nrw