The 9th Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival (UBIFF) began with the new movie, ‘Children’s of Chinggis’, at the Corporate Convention Centre, earlier today (10th of October). The festival will award best movies in  four categories, namely: best feature film, best documentary film, best children’s movie and opening movie. 

As a result of the huge public success of the previous annual festivals, the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science is happy to be working with the Arts Council of Mongolia, the Embassy of the United States and Mongolian Film Council to continue to introduce local audiences to a range of the most recent and cinematically daring, uncompromising and powerful filmmaking from around the globe.

Five award-winning contemporary American films will be screened on Oct. 11-15 at the Tengis Cinema.  The US Embassy is also bringing in two experts to talk about their experiences with entrepreneurship, which is the theme of this year’s American Film Showcase. The first is successful entrepreneur Stacey Ferreira, who will present the Focus Country opening film, “She Started It.” The second is two-time Emmy winner, filmmaker and writer, Tony Gerber, who will also be a panelist at the UBIFF – International Film Forum and hold workshops for local film-makers and students.