IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
BAAVGAI BOLOHSON
ZOLJARGAL PUREVDASH
2023
year
99
Minutes
SCHEDULE
03.03.2024
/ 12:40 PM/
Audi 7 PVR INOX ORION MALL
06.03.2024
/ 10:30 AM/
Audi 5 PVR INOX ORION MALL
Synopsis
A poor but prideful teenager, Ulzii, lives in the yurt area of Ulaanbaatar with his family. He is a physics genius and is determined to win a science competition to earn a scholarship. When his mother finds a job in the countryside, she leaves him and his younger siblings to face a harsh winter by themselves. Ulzii will have to take a risky job to look after them all and keep his home heated.
Producer(s) or Production Company: Urban Factory, Amygdala Productions
Screenplay: Zoljargal Purevdash
Director of Photography: Davaanyam Delgerjargal
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Music: Johanni Curtet
Sound: Philippe Grivel
Cast: Battsooj Uurtsaikh, Batmandakh Batchuluun, Ganchimeg Sandagdorj, Batsaikhan Battulga, Urnukhbayar Battogtokh, Purevdulam Natsagbadam
Awards - Winner: Jerusalem FF (Special Mention - Best International Debut), El Gouna FF (Best Actor)
Awards - Nominations | Screened | Official Selection: Cannes FF (Un Certain Regard Award, Golden Camera), Jerusalem FF (Award for International Cinema - Best International Debut), São Paulo IFF (New Directors Competition), El Gouna FF (Golden Star - Feature Narrative Competition)
Director's Biography
ZOLJARGAL PUREVDASH
Zoljargal Purevdash is a Mongolian filmmaker who studied filmmaking in Japan. Her short films were screened at the Locarno Film Festival, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, etc. Recently, her short film STAIRS (2020) won the first prize at the Chicago International Children’s FF and entered the 94th Oscars Award. She is an alumnus of Talents Tokyo and Asian Film Academy. Her short film YELLOW BUS (2022) was selected for Qumra 2023 and her first feature film IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (2023), premiered at Cannes IFF.
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- Women Power in Filmmaking
- Unsung Incredible India - Films from little known languages
- Retrospective
- Centenary Tributes
- Homages & Remembrances
- Thematic Films on Human Resilience, Rights and Values
- 20,000 SPECIES OF BEES
- 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL
- AMAL
- BANEL & ADAMA
- CITY OF WIND
- DELEGATION
- DESERTS
- DORMITORY
- ENDLESS BORDERS
- EXODUS
- FALLEN LEAVES
- FOUR DAUGHTERS
- FREMONT
- GOODBYE JULIA
- HEROIC
- HESITATION WOUND
- INSIDE THE YELLOW COCOON SHELL
- JE’VIDA
- KIDNAPPED
- ME CAPTAIN
- OMEN
- SIX FEET OVER
- SLOW
- THE BURITI FLOWER
- THE DELINQUENTS
- THE MONK AND THE GUN
- THE OLD OAK
- THE RYE HORN
- THE TEACHER
- TOLL
- FOUR LITTLE ADULTS
- PARADISE IS BURNING
- DAAAAAALI!
- BLAGA’S LESSONS
- SWEET DREAMS
- MATRIA
- LET ME GO
- CLOSE YOUR EYES
- THE LAND WHERE WINDS STOOD STILL
- BONJOUR SWITZERLAND
- IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE
- ALL EARS
- A WHOLE LIFE
- WITHOUT AIR
- BROTHERS
- THE TASTE OF THINGS
- RADICAL
- ALL THE SILENCE
- YANNICK
- TEMPORARIES
- PARADISE
- ABOUT DRY GRASSES
- HOFFMAN'S FAIRY TALES
- DAMAGE
- EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY
- EMPTY NETS
- THE MONKEY HOUSE
- SHIVAMMA