Black Milk

Local title
Must piim
Original title
Schwarze Milch
Director
Uisenma Borchu
Country
Germany, Mongolia
Year
2020
Programme
In Focus: New German Cinema

Uisenma Borchu sophomore film (her first feature "Don’t Look At Me That Way" played in the first feature competition of the Black Nights in 2015) features a young woman searching for her roots, played by the director herself.

After years of living in Germany, Wessi visits her sister Ossi in their homeland of Mongolia. Different values clash from the start, but the problems intensify, when Wessi starts to feel a unique erotic connection with Terbish, a mysterious older man living a traditional existence on the steppes. Another radically sensual work from this outstanding filmmaker, transgresses Mongolian as well supposedly more liberal western conventions.

Christoph Gröner

Director
Uisenma Borchu
Screenwriter
Uisenma Borchu
Cast
Gunsmaa Tsogzol, Uisenma Borchu, Terbish Demberel, Franz Rogowski, Borchu Bawaa
Producer
Sven Zellner
DoP
Sven Zellner
Editor
Uisenma Borchu, Christine Schorr
Music
Daniel Murena
Production
Sven Zellner und Uisenma Borchu Film
Runtime
Language
German, Mongolian
Subtitles
Estonian, English

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