Amygdala Films

Ulzii, a teenager from a poor neighborhood in Ulaanbaatar, is determined to win a sciences-physics competition to get a scholarship. His illiterate mother finds a job in the countryside, leaving him and his brother and sister in the middle of winter. Ulzii wanders around at night looking for things to burn for heat while preparing for the national competition.

A young but sexually frustrated woman fails to fix the broken light bulb of her rental apartment bathroom. She lives with her daughter as her husband does long-term blue-collar work in abroad. After her apartment window cracked, she feels more lonely and naked. When the landlord visits to fix it all, she infatuates with him.

А little boy lives in the poor suburb of Ulaanbaatar with his father who is an alcoholic addict. In his mind, there is always an idea to commit a suicide because his father abuses him permanently. His father spends all his money for Vodka, so the boy bought every single food by 100 grams. This is an experimental short film which wanted to show the boy`s inner feeling by non-traditional editing.

Living in a city is punishment for a nomad who moves freely across the land. Simply waiting at a stoplight is akin to being in a cage.