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It premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival where it competed for the Golden Bear [4, 19]. It won the Grand Prix at Film Fest Gent [19].

While the film starts like a murder mystery, it quickly shifts focus to the relationship between the officer and the herdswoman, and eventually to her solitary life and the broader themes of existence [1, 15, 17]. Thematic Focus Ondog(2019)

The narrative is less about the crime and more about "pregnancy, gestation, birth, and death" [7, 12]. This is punctuated by graphic, realistic scenes of animal husbandry, such as the slaughter of a sheep and the birth of a calf [6, 11, 18]. It premiered at the 2019 Berlin International Film

It is described as a "meditative art film" with minimal dialogue and an unhurried, non-linear narrative [5, 12, 18]. Thematic Focus The narrative is less about the

The story is set in the vast, remote Mongolian steppe and begins with the discovery of a murdered woman’s naked body [4, 12, 15].