Our dreams can only be as expansive as our circumstances. To have ambitions requires the ability to imagine a way out of your present. That can be a difficult task if much of your existence is spent merely trying to make it through the day. If, as it happens for Ulzii (Battsooj Uurtsaikh), the young man at the heart of Zoljargal Purevdash’s wondrous “If Only I Could Hibernate,” you have to worry about caring for your siblings and being able to afford coal to heat the yurt you reside in. As the film beautifully (and heartbreakingly) traces, sometimes even just daring to dream big — let alone bigger —
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