The Eagle Huntress 2016

The Eagle Huntress is a 2016 internationally co-produced Kazakh-language documentary feature film directed by Otto Bell and narrated by executive producer Daisy Ridley. The film follows Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 13-year-old Kazakh girl from Mongolia, as she attempts to become the first female eagle hunter to compete in the Golden Eagle Festival at Ölgii, Mongolia. She belongs to a family of nomads who spend their summers in a ger in the Altai Mountains and their winters in a house in town, and the men in her family have been eagle hunters for seven generations. With her father Nurgaiv's help, she learns how to train golden eagles and captures and trains her own eaglet.