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Director(s):
Sardar (Hamid)
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Producer(s):
ARTE FRANCE, GENS BIEN PRODUCTION (LES)
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Territories:
Worldwide.
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Production year:
2025
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Language(s):
German, English, French
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Rights:
TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD
In the province of Bayin Olgii, in the far west of Mongolia, Kazakh nomads capture and train golden eagles to hunt foxes and wolves. They choose females because they are bigger and more ferocious than the males. Thus, begins a kinf of love story between human and eagles.
Men openly show their affection to female eagles, caressing and kissing them in public, something they would not do with their own wives. Hunting with eagles is a traditionally male activity, but Marjangul, a 14-year-old girl, wants to learn. To do so, she must cross the cultural boundaries established between men and women in the traditional society in which she lives. Yet the eagle is also a wild and free creature, kept in captivity by men and blindfolded to hunt dangerous predators such as foxes and wolves. Marjangul sees in her eagle's suffering a reflection of her own identity crisis in a patriarchal culture, especially when according to tradition, her older sister has to be abducted so she can be married to a man from a neighboring clan.