City of Wind(HKAFF2023)

Orizzonti Award for Best Actor, Venice International Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
Busan International Film Festival

17-year-old Ze is not only the top student at school but also a shaman, who helps his community members by communicating with ancestral spirits. Ze does a great job in maintaining his dual identities, until he meets Maralaa, his world turns upside down as he discovers another side of himself. After her two acclaimed shorts, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir returns with her debut feature, a coming-of-age drama delving into the dilemma between personal desire and community duties of new generation Mongolians. First-timer Tergel Bold-Erdene clinched the Orizzonti award for Best Actor in Venice.