PROGRAMME RELEASE 2024
The program of the 18th ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna, 16th to 22nd of May 2024, will be published on May 2nd, 2024. Presale starts on May 2nd, 2024.
OPENING FILM 2024
DAUGHTER OF GENGHIS
Kristoffer Poulsen, Christian Als | Denmark, Sweden, France, Mongolia 2023 | 85 Min.
Mongolian with engl. Subtitles
In Ulaanbaatar, single mother Gerel leads a violent neo-nationalist feminist gang of women fighting for the purity of Mongolian blood against foreign exploitation and appropriation. In this struggle, her son Temuulen is neglected and Gerel runs the danger of losing everything that is important to her as life changes around her. Gerel’s views are inevitably called into question when both her relationship with her growing teenage son and the country itself undergo transformation.
DAUGHTER OF GENGHIS accompanies Gerel and her son for seven years on an emotional journey of transformations of a country and a mother caught between entrenched ideologies and new realities of life.
Festival Sujet 2024: DAUGHTER OF GENGHIS © Kristoffer Poulsen & Christian Als, 2024
