Topic: Exotic tale of a mother camel in the Gobi Desert who rejects her newborn colt after a difficult birth, and the family of nomads who perform an ancient musical ritual to reunite them. Financier: ...

The sorrows of young Botok began when he was half-born. His mother, a regal dromedary named Ingen Temee - who is also the first-billed star and title character in The Story of the Weeping Camel - got ...

“The Story of the Weeping Camel” is about a family of nomadic camel herders in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert who must marshal all their resources to ensure that a young camel doesn’t die after his mother ...

In a time when at the multiplex aliens and predators are squaring off and Tom Cruise is running around offing people, calling a film small and charming may seem like damning with faint praise. Not a ...

North American independentdistributor THINKFilm has acquired all North American rights to ByambasurenDavaa and Luigi Falorni's The Story Of The Weeping Camel, Mongolia's first official foreign ...

If you ever need to know how to make a camel cry or the correct way to dismantle a yurt, Byambasuren Davaa can show you how. The granddaughter of nomads from the Mongolian steppes, she has made it her ...

The fauna takes top billing in remarkable docu shot by students from Munich's film school in the arid expanses of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Preemed at the Munich fest in June, and a hot ticket among ...

Documentaries in other languages often seem more like conventional narrative films, because the unfamiliarity of the vocal inflections and the necessity of subtitles flattens out the difference ...

I realize it’s a tough sell getting anybody to see a semi-documentary called The Story of the Weeping Camel, but trust me—you’ll be weeping right along with the camel. Set in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, ...

In the world of mass entertainment, the camel is a sadly underused creature. The desert mammal is almost always relegated to supporting status in films and when it does win some time in the spotlight, ...

Combining drama and documentary, The Story Of The Weeping Camel is a lovingly observed and fascinating journal of day-to-day survival in the Mongolian Gobi desert. For a family of herders who happily ...