White Flag

Batbayar Chogsom / Mongolia

Screening

Cinemes Girona

01-11-2024 / 20:00 h.

Film Information

Year: 2023

Duration: 96

Language: VOSE

Genre: Drama

Synopsis

Saran and Naran are young women in their early twenties trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads. Despite their close bond, both are troubled by a ghost from the past. As they strive to move forward, they encounter a city detective, Zorig, who questions the two about a missing man.

Director

Batbayar Chogsom was born in 1974 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and immigrated to Switzerland at the age of 26. After completing a basic journalism program, he graduated with a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Zurich in 2012. He then went on to work as an archivist in the historical graphics and photographs collections at the Zurich National Museum. His film Out of Paradise (2018) was awarded Best Film at the Shanghai International Film Festival, and his most recent work, White Flag (2023), was selected for the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.