City Of Wind

The shaman ‘Grandpa Spirit’ – face concealed and with a mask that looks appropriately gnarled – ministers to his community, providing both moral and spiritual guidance. When the mask is removed, however, a gentle 17-year-old boy is revealed. Alongside his shaman duties, high school student Ze must work on his studies, which he does diligently. But Ze’s world is thrown upside down when he’s called to provide spiritual protection for a girl similar in age about to undergo heart surgery. An immediate attraction eventually leads to a relationship, and soon Ze is awakened to a lifestyle, with shopping malls and neon nightclubs, very different to his own. Talented director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir uses this story to paint a revealing portrait of contemporary Mongolia in a film of great tenderness and power.