Angry Spirits

DE/MN 2024, 94 min, Iris Pakulla

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 and 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. 

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