Yesterday saw the premiere of the internationally renowned movie Khadak Of the Belgian/American director couple Brosens/Woodworth. The movie tells the tale of a boy, whos family is forced to leave their herding ground. The film won a range of awards including the Lion of the Future in Venice.

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly relocated to desolate mining towns. Bagi saves the life of a beautiful coal thief, Zolzaya, and together they reveal the plague was a lie fabricated to eradicate nomadism. A sublime revolution ensues.

Mrs. Woodworth, present at the premiere, congratulated the cast and the whole team with its achievement refelected in the many awards. It was exiting for all the see the film at last "come home" to the country it was conceived. After honouring the main actors Mrs Woodworth introduced the movie to the audience. "This is a movie that might raise more questions than answers." And the rather impressionistic movie was quite a change from the regular korean romantics and hollywood action normally screening in the Tengis Kino Theather. But the movie was well received in the Mongolian Arts scene. Mongolian journalist Nomin Lkhagvasuren comments: "The very preciseness of the way the film script captures Mongolian cultural expressions, beliefs and myths, the crude and beautiful reality of living, fused with essential and universal humanity...make this film a potentially unique piece of art. I envision a silence falling down upon an audience after watching the film. Silence where beauty, harmony, courage and thought translate the film into our inner universes, allowing us to open up a space and time for an inner conversation."

The premiere was supported by Naiz.mn


AWARDS


ASIAN FIRST FILMS FESTIVAL IN SINGAPORE

BEST ACTOR: BATZUL KHAYANKHYARVAA
BEST ACTRESS: TSETSEGEE BYAMBA

2006 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LION OF THE FUTURE
BEST FIRST FEATURE

2006 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SWAROVSKI CULTURAL INNOVATION AWARD HONOURABLE MENTION

2006 BRATISLAVA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION
ECUMENICAL JURY’S SPECIAL MENTION

2006 FLANDERS CULTURE AWARDS
BEST FILM

2007 SUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
WORLD CINEMA JURY AWARD NOMINATION

2007 GOIÀS INT’L ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL
BEST FEATURE FILM
CRITICS’ AWARD

2007 CYPRUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
GOLDEN APHRODITE FOR BEST FILM
BEST DIRECTOR
BEST MUSIC
BEST ART DIRECTION
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEST COSTUMES

2007 SPIRIT OF FIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (RUSSIA)
SPECIAL JURY AWARD (SILVER TAIGA)

2007 OSLO FILMS FROM THE SOUTH FILM FESTIVAL
FIPRESCI AWARD

2007 ASIAN FESTIVAL OF FIRST FILMS  (SINGAPORE)
BEST ACTOR NOMINATION

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