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: 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. Angry Spirits is Iris’ debut film as a director. Besides her eight years of experience as a documentary producer and writer in Germany and Spain (majade Filmproduktion, Tondowski Films, Sagamedia, Polar Star Films, etc.), Iris Pakulla is an environmental anthropologist currently preparing her PhD at Cambridge University. Her research focuses on the importance of recognising the right to an intact environment as a fundamental human right. Through her work, she is helping to shed light on how climate change and extractive industries are affecting the lives of indigenous communities around the world. Iris currently lives between Ulaanbaatar and Hamburg. Besides her eight years of experience as a documentary producer and writer in Germany and Spain, Iris Pakulla is an environmental anthropologist currently preparing her PhD at Cambridge University. Her research focuses on the importance of recognising the right to an intact environment as a fundamental human right.
