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ANGRY SPIRITS

By Iris PAKULLA

FILMDELIGHTS - as SALES All rights, World

Social issues - Completed 2024

Ainur, a young mother in Ulaanbaatar, feels haunted. Angry Spirits tells her personal story while connecting it to a larger social malaise. 30% of Mongolia’s people live in poverty. Precariousness, structural inequality, fear, anger and vengeful nature spirits shape this intimate and unusual story.

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary, Female director
- Countries
- GERMANY, MONGOLIA
- Languages
- MONGOLE
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Iris PAKULLA
- Producer(s)
- Eva FOUQUET (GEBRUEDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION BERLIN)
- Synopsis
- Angry Spirits takes a poetic look at a global challenge: the threat to indigenous peoples from environmental degradation caused by mining and climate catastrophe. The film follows the quest for healing of Ainur, a young mother from a traditional herding family, who plunged into extreme poverty after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now living in Mongolia's modern capital, Ulaanbaatar, she works as a dancer in a strip club. Ainur feels unwell, as if haunted by spirits. Ainur follows the advice of a shaman and returns to the land of her ancestors. On her journey, she confronts the destruction of the this once breath taking landscape and the question, how to heal herself and her home.