Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir erzählt in ihrem Debüt «City of Wind« eine feinfühlige Geschichte im Kontext der mongolischen Gesellschaft, die zwischen Moderne und Tradition schwebt. Wir haben mit ihr bei ihrem Besuch in der Schweiz über die Hauptstadt Ulaanbaatar, den Casting Prozess und die mongolische Filmindustrie gesprochen sowie darüber, wie sie auf die Idee gekommen ist, einen Film über einen jungen Schamanen zu drehen.

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir:

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir is a Mongolian scriptwriter and director, born in 1989. She has directed few short films including Mountain Cat (2020), selected among others at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Busan Film Festival and Snow in September (2022) which has won the Golden Lion …

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City of Wind

Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir

Mongolia, 2023

Mongolia

2023

104 min.

DCP, Blu-Ray

CH, LIE

Mongolisch/df+i

A spiritual shaman is a crucial member of the community, the one who everyone depends on when in need of moral and spiritual guidance. What happens when that shaman is a 17-year-old high school student who must balance his profound Spiritual responsibilities while also juggling another life - that of a high school ...

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