Ikhbayar Urchuud

THE WILL TO ART is a meditative glance into the lives and works of three artist families living in modern day Mongolia. In the quietude of their studios they chisel and stroke their inner creatures to life, but the real world always calls them back to their families. Somewhere between the delicate inner world of the artist and the inescapable hold of reality lies the meaning that gives their labour a purpose: a young mother feeding her baby as sunlight pours in through the window; a child scribbling his first drawing on a piece of paper; a father having a smoke at sunset as his son plays on the playground. Shot in a fly-on-the-wall style, THE WILL TO ART is a unique exercise in cinematic voyeurism that offers a candid glimpse into what it means to be an artist, what it means to be a family, and what it means to be human.

A young girl who lives in Ulaanbaatar is in crisis. She is totally disappointed by the idea of dependent upon the social contract. After several failures, she successfully created a relationship with someone. A someone who can share her ideologies with her. But she finds herself again in trouble communicating in terms of language. After several years, she eventually finds peace by rejecting idealism and grasps the power of rational thinking.

Surrounded by ignorance and superstition, three police officers race against time to uncover the truth behind the murder.