Storyline
This spellbinding documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old nomadic Mongolian girl who is fighting to become the first female eagle hunter in twelve generations of her Kazakh family. Through breathtaking aerial cinematography and intimate verite footage, the film captures her personal journey while also addressing universal themes like female empowerment, the natural world, coming of age and the onset of modernity.
Trivia:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens actress Daisy Ridley saw an early cut of this film and loved it so much that she wanted to be a part of it. She is now credited as an executive producer on the film. See more »
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Rating: 10/10
What can I say more than the reviewer/user prior? This is truly a
wonderful film. I saw it on the last day of our International Film
Festival and somehow the word must have 'got around' as the cinema was
well filled! As the previous writer noted, the relationship between the
locals and the film-makers must have been excellent. I noted carefully
the credits on its conclusion and most seem to be Euro/Anglo names -
again interesting, that alone adds credit.
The blurbs prior made much of the negative attitudes of the traditional
people, but a tremendous joy of this film is that the father was
totally behind and with his 13-yr old all the way. The empathy and
shared loved of the task and each other was greatly inspiring. He was a
tremendous teacher. The context of the piece with its daily and
dramatic challenges with almost none of 1st World intervention (okay -
they had trucks, wore jeans, sweat-shirts etc at the school, but today
nowhere in the world is cut off from some 'western' features, is it?) I
think one class shown was in beginner English.
A viewer should not miss the deep but never forced spiritual/religious
impetus. Is this part of world of 'old Islam' does anyone know?
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