A Lama from Ulaanbaatar

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A Lama from Ulaanbaatar

2011

0h 52m

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A twelve year old boy, living in a "yurt" but in love with hip hop and computer games is caught between modernity and tradition, aspirations and poverty and decides to become a Buddhist monk.

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