Asian Pop-Up Cinema | Centerpiece Film | HARVEST MOON | Mongolia

DIRECTOR: Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam

STARRING: Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam, Tenuun-Erdene Garamkhand, Damdin Sovd

FILM SOURCE: Asian Shadows

Pinnacle Career Achievement honoree Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam is scheduled to attend the award ceremony before the film and Q&A after.

SYNOPSIS:When his father gets seriously ill, Tulgaa who works as a chef in the city, travels back to his village. Soon the father dies, and he decides to stay to fulfill the harvesting his father promised to do. While working in the field he encounters a young boy, Tuntuulei, who lives alone with his grandparents while his single mother works in the city and they clash over the harvest.

HARVEST MOON is a story about childhood, parenthood and the role of fathers, based on the short novel of T. Bum-Erden. This is the debut feature by popular Actor-turned-Director: Amarsaikhan Baljinnyam. This film won many awards including the Audience Award at Vancouver IFF 2022, ESCAAAL Milan 2023, MiWorld Young FF Milan 2023 and the Critics Award at Asian Summer Film Festival 2023.

"Impressively polished by first-feature standards, Amarsaikhan's exploration of (step)fatherhood in Harvest Moon is undeniably simple but achingly tender, which might well prove to be a winning combination." - Amarsanaa Battulga, ScreenAnarchy

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Presented by Sophia’s Choice, Asian Pop-Up Cinema (亞洲躍動電影展) (APUC), is a bi-annual Asian film festival in Chicago, providing a platform for specially curated Asian films in their original languages with English subtitles.

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