ANGRY SPIRITS
Iris Pakulla | Germany, Mongolia 2024 | 94 Min. | Mongolian with engl. subtitles
SUNDAY, 11.05. | 6.30 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
In presence of Iris Pakulla
Raised in a traditional herding family, Ainur now lives with her daughter and partner in Ulaanbaatar. Working as a dancer in a strip club, nights turn into days and alcohol and drugs make life seem easy. Haunted by the spirits of her ancestors, she turns to a shaman to help her follow the call of the ancestors, open up to the spiritual world and return to her ancestral land. On her journey, she is confronted with the destruction of landscape, exploitation and environmental degradation. How can she heal herself and her country?
In ANGRY SPIRITS Iris Pakulla works in close collaboration with Ainur to create re-enacted scenes of key moments on her search for reconciliation with herself, nature and the ancestors.
Director: Iris Pakulla
Camera: Iván Castiñeiras, Iris Pakulla, Gary Batmunkh
Editing: Christian R. Timmann
Sound: Zendmene-Erdene Ichinnorov
Production: GEBRÜDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION
AWARDS & SCREENINGS
Festival del Popoli 2024
BIOGRAPHY
Iris Pakulla is a writer and environmental anthropologist based in Berlin. ANGRY SPIRITS” is Iris Pakulla’s feature film debut as a director. With over ten years experience as a producer and writer of documentary films in Germany and Spain (majade Filmproduktion, Tondowski Films, Polar Star Film, etc.), Iris Pakulla also studied social anthropology and recently completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the metabolic relationships between people, environment and health in the context of climate change and the impact of extractive industries on the lives of people in Mongolia.
She directed the mid-length film ‘I swam alone’ (2011), worked as a screenwriter on ‘Notes on Displacement’ (Khaled Jarrar, 2022), ‘Comander Arian’ (Alba Sotorra, 2018) and ‘The last Hunters’ (TV series, 2014) and was co-producer of ‘Gods of Moleenbek’ (Reetta Huhtanen, 2019) and ‘The Queen of Silence’ (Agnieszka Zwiefka, 2014), among others, all of which were successfully screened at festivals, on international TV channels and in cinemas.
