About a
third of the Mongolian population, including Aisholpan’s family, remains
nomadic. The film followed her family as they pack their house into a truck and take off for their
seasonal home. She and her siblings live at school during the week and she returns
home on weekends to train her eagle.
Aisholpan
and her father travel on horseback to the annual Altai Eagle Festival in Bayan Olgii. The contest measures participants’ skills
in appearance, horseback riding, and control of their birds. Aisholpan and her father next ventured on a hunting
trek for fox in the snow covered mountains to test her skills. Temperatures during these hunts can
plunge to -30, and scenes of Aisholpan chipping a hole in an iced-over lake so
her horse can drink made the 30 degrees we’ve seen this month in New York feel
more bearable.
Rosendale
Theatre: www.rosendaletheatre.org
The Eagle Huntress: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfi5JS6HTH0
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