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SOLONGO

By Gan-Ochir ENEBISH

MONGOL FILMS DISTRIBUTION - as SALES All rights, World / PROD / FEST

Documentary - Production 2021

Six years old, Mongolian nomad child Solongo, goes to school in the province center to start a school and she has to live in a school dormitory with her older sister, away from her loving parents.

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Documentary, First film, Children's
- Countries
- MONGOLIA
- Languages
- MONGOLE
- Duration
- 90 mn
- Director(s)
- Gan-Ochir ENEBISH
- Cast
- Solongo D
- Producer(s)
- Tsogtbayar NAMSRAI (Mongol Films Distribution), Gan-Ochir ENEBISH (OTP LLC)
- Synopsis
- This documentary will show the story of a six years old herder girl in Mongolian steppes and her journey away from home to the province center to study in a school - her life in a dormitory and she coups with her new-found place. Solongo enters into a first grade away from her comfortable childhood home and she is the youngest in her class. She was born and raised by her grandparents in Uvurkhangai province, Khairkhan Dulaan soum, Mongolia. Her father passed away before her birth and she was sent to be raised by her grandparents, whom she thought were her mother and father, because her widowed mother remarried. In the country, Solongo would wake up at the crack of dawn and help her grandmother to milk her cows and she would milk the goats herself and collect dry dungs. She would of course find a time to play around and find a fun thing to do for herself. She is going to the province center to go to school in the fall. Her class mates would stay in their homes, since they live in the province, but she had to stay in a school dormitory with her older sister. How will Solongo deal with when school’s first day starts, learn the first alphabets, first class friends, first teacher, first New Year’s Eve, first school holiday, spring livestock births and her first school year until the first summer break? Most importantly how will Solongo adapt into her new home, the dormitory is going to be an interesting experience for her and everyone. Although she is not completely by herself in her dorm room, how will she adjust to her new place? This is the life story that could only happen to the herder’s children of Mongolia.