If Only I Could Hibernate (in Mongolian, Баавгай болохсон) is the first Mongolian film ever selected for Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival. It shows life on the edge of Ulaanbaatar as it really is: a ninth-grade boy gives everything he has to get through a hard winter.
The film's message is ours too: education is the way out of poverty, and a hard childhood can still lead to a bright future.
Lantuun Dohio was one of the film's four financiers, alongside a Swiss development agency and a Mongolian fintech group. The children in the film wore clothes donated to our centre.
- More than 25,000 people saw it in 100 cinemas in France
- 12,359 people saw it in Mongolia in its first three days
- It is now streaming on HBO Max
Screenings in the United States
In 2025 we brought the film to Mongolian communities across the United States, with screenings near Washington, DC (Fairfax, Virginia) and in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Salt Lake City.
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