THE BOY
SHAMAN

The Boy Shaman follows Gegeene, an eighteen-year-old Mongolian who lives between two worlds. In Ulaanbaatar he is a university student, spending time with friends and navigating the everyday life of a young adult in a rapidly modernizing city. At the same time, he carries a rare spiritual responsibility. Chosen by ancestral spirits at the age of nine, he has grown up practicing as a shaman within the Gerliin Urguu guild, one of Mongolia's most respected shamanic communities.

As Gegeene moves through family expectations, military service, friendships, and solitary journeys across Mongolia, he begins to reflect on what this role means for his future. Through observation of his daily life, rituals, and relationships, The Boy Shaman becomes less a film about shamanism itself than about the experience of growing up with responsibilities that reach far beyond one's age.

It is a portrait of a young man learning how to balance the expectations of tradition with the freedom to discover who he wants to become.