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City of Wind (a Young Shaman) - Expat Cinema

17-year-old Ze from Ulaanbaatar is a respected shaman. When he starts dating Maralaa, he has to choose between spirituality and his personal desires.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

City of Wind (a Young Shaman)

In the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, 17-year-old Ze is in his final year at school. And he is doing very well; his teacher expects him to go far. But Ze has already made a career for himself: he is a highly respected shaman, counselling people, helped by ancestral spirits. Not everyone is impressed by this: peer Maralaa thinks it's all nonsense. And it is precisely to her he is hugely attracted - and she to him. Together they dive into the city's nightlife. How does this relate to his spiritual work?

Ulaanbaatar is a big city full of modern skyscrapers and hideous buildings from the Soviet past, but on the outskirts of the city there are also the traditional yurts. In this self-written coming-of-age story, her feature debut, Mongolian but now Lisbon-based director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir shows how this contrast between old and new, between modern and traditional takes shape in everyday life.