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SHAMAN

SHAMAN

SHAMAN

Documentary, Short, Student,

China

2024

Runtime, min

13

The young Manchu and Mongolian shamans, Flaming Horse and Uligi, with their unique skills and ideas, challenge traditions and explore new-age ways of passing on their heritage, and are committed to sharing shamanic culture in all its diversity and vitality.
Xinyi Hu

Director:

Xinyi Hu

Film Reel
Film Reel
Film Reel

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REVIEWS:

The film seems to speak of the rift between tradition and modernity without words, only through ritual, sound, and body. The camera observes as ancient energy seeks a new breath.

Daniel Garcia

I was struck by how the director uses the forest’s light and greenery as a metaphor for awakening. Nature isn’t a backdrop, it’s an equal participant in the ritual.

Andres Martinez Hernandez

Every frame radiates respect for the roots. There’s no exoticism here, only the transmission of knowledge, where every gesture and drumbeat becomes an act of remembrance.

Adriа Heitmann

I don’t know why, but I felt silence inside. The drum seemed to echo somewhere under my skin. It’s deeply personal like the film is speaking directly to you.

Jérémie Nori

It is a meditation on how culture survives through transformation. For tradition to live, it must evolve and the film captures that sacred moment of change.

Emily Johnson

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