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Amarsanaa Battulga
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Film Critic and Writer, Freelance
Shanghai Shi, Nanjing
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Biography
Amarsanaa Battulga (阿木) is a freelance film critic, programmer, and PhD researcher based in Nanjing and Ulaanbaatar. Alumnus of Berlinale Talent Press (2023); jury member at Hong Kong IFF (2025), Locarno (2024), and Golden Ger (2024); pre-selector for True/False (2023), Cambridge (2023), and Chinese Film Festival Hamburg (2024). He worked as the associate editor of ChinaNauts, an online magazine on contemporary China. His bylines include Cineuropa, photogénie, Talking Shorts, The China Project, The World of Chinese, and many more. When he is not watching, researching, or writing about films, he enjoys playing board games, practicing classical Mongolian, and thinking about going to the gym. He cannot ride a horse.
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Content
By Amarsanaa Battulga| Documentary Magazine Verified In 2024, 7 million livestock died in Mongolia due to what some say was the country’s harshest winter on record. Australian filmmaker Kasimir Burgess witnessed the disaster firsthand while making his third feature documentary, Iron Winter. The film documents two young herders, Batbold and Tsagaanaa, upholding a rural Mongolian tradition of winter herding—protecting horses from severe dzud and wolves by amassing them by the thousands and migrating for several months in search of better pastures.
By Amarsanaa Battulga| Documentary Magazine Verified The closing night party at West Lake IDF. Courtesy of West Lake IDF Although few people outside China have heard of it, the West Lake International Documentary Festival—locally known as IDF, which stands for “I Documentary Fact”—has quickly become the country’s leading documentary festival since its inception in 2017.
By Amarsanaa Battulga| EasternKicks@ Chinese Sixth Generation auteur Jia Zhangke at his most experimental and romantic…Ever the chronicler of the marginal downtrodden grassroots in China, the Sixth-Generation auteur Jia Zhangke returns to familiar subject matters and themes in his latest, Caught by the Tides. However, what makes this film stand out is how he does it, so much so that the programmers at the Hawai’i International Film Festival, where the film screens this week, categorized it as “experimental.”The reason is simple.
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