Ulaanbaatar
“The Faith” being nominated in the Asian World Film Festival
Art & CultureUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Faith (“Itgel” in Mongolian) is to be screened at the ArcLight Culver City cinema on at 9.00 pm of October 27, the US time. Mongolian films – The Faith and Mother are being nominated for the Audience Award of the Asian World Film Festival.
The previous year’s winner of the Audience Award was “Thief of Mind” (“Bodlyn Hulgaich”). The festival will take place between October 24 and November 1, having more than 50 nominees for 7 nominations.
The Faith tells a story of Itgel, an ordinary public servant, who gets a sudden boost in his career and joins the “minister’s team,” where his signature decides many people’s lives. Despite his influential new post, he fails to buttress his friend Akhbayar’s most important project. While anguishing over it, he learns that he has a terminal illness. What would you do if you were going to die tomorrow? Can you let your friend’s life crumble, leave your parents and loved one behind without disclosing the truth to them? Mongolia is high in the world corruption index. The film reveals how young public officials fall victim to the current status quo of endless corruption and reminds the viewer of the fact that one is remembered for what he/she were and not what he/she had.
