City of Wind (A Young Shaman)
Cinema Forum Groningen
Nieuwe Markt 1, 9712KN Groningen GroningenA young student in contemporary Mongolia must juggle his spiritual life as a shaman and his personal desires.
The 17-year-old gentle Ze fulfills multiple roles. Within his community, he is a spiritual shaman who communicates with the spirits of his ancestors. At school, he is a model student with the highest grades. The balance in his life is disrupted when he meets his peer Maralaa during a shamanic ritual. They fall in love and explore life in modern Ulaanbaatar together. This awakens emotional and physical desires and he must juggle between tradition and modernity and communal duties and his personal desires.