Winner of the awards for Best Short Film this year in Venice, Toronto and, more recently, in the Hamptons with Snow in September, after participating in Cannes’ Competition in 2020 with Mountain Cat, Mongolian filmmaker Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir began filming yesterday on her feature debut, titled City of Wind [+leggi anche:
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Written by the director, the script centres on Ze who’s in his last year of high school; he is 17 years old and a shaman. One day he meets Marla, a delicate but distrustful young woman, who has come to visit Ze’s spirit because of her illness. For Ze, it is love at first sight. When Marla rejects his affection, Ze confronts for the first time the limits of spirituality, love and his own evolution…  City of Wind is a sober portrait of teenage life in today's Ulaanbaatar.

Produced by Katia Khazak and Charlotte Vincent for Aurora Films, Ze is co-produced by Guru Media (Mongolia), Uma Pedra no Sapato (Portugal), Volya Films (The Netherlands) and in association with 27 Films Production (Germany). It is supported by the Aide aux Cinémas du Monde fund of the CNC, the fund for French-Portuguese cinema co-productions, the NFF+HBF Co-production scheme (which brings together the Netherlands Film Fund and the Hubert Bals Fund), the HBF+Europe: Minority Co-production support (another programme initiated by the Hubert Bals Fund), the World Cinema Fund of the Berlinale, and Cofinova. The feature film has also benefited from the support of the ARRI, the MEDIA programme, the screenwriting assistance programme of CICLIC ( Centre-Val de Loire region), and the Hubert Bals Fund. Winner of the Open Doors Hub Production Grant in Locarno in 2020, the project has also won two prizes at the Torino Film Lab: a CNC special mention in 2019, and a Post-production Award in 2021. Filming will take place from 24 October to 2 December with Portugal’s Vasco Viana (Tommy Guns [+leggi anche:
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For the record, Aurora Films unveiled Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul [+leggi anche:
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