This lavishly photographed and costumed action-drama-epic sticks to what we know of Genghis's early years, although that's not much, telling the story of how a young tribal boy overcame many obstacles, including slavery, to become a legendary conqueror. The widescreen suits this 'big sky' country and there is something remarkably authentic about the yurts and the costumes. Chosen for marriage, at the age of nine, by a female child, Borte, while he thinks he's doing the chosing, she becomes one o find out more...

Byambasuren Davaa's follow-up to ‘The Story of the Weeping Camel' is a low key drama-documentary style tale of a nomadic family on the Mongolian steppes. Using the adoption by one of three young children of a stray dog as the narrative centrepiece to build a picture round, we observe many aspects of a disappearing lifestyle; riding horses, skinning a goat, sewing clothes, the costumes themselves, riding horses, cooking food, dismantling a yurt, moving home et al. Excellent fare for anyone, inclu find out more...

Based on an educational movie that Byambasuren Davaa saw as a child, The Story of a Weeping Camel traces the efforts of a family of herders to goad and cajole a mother camel into accepting her rejected newborn. As hope begins to fade, a last ditch attempt finds two of the youngest family members crossing the sandstorm-swept Gobi desert in search of a music professor who, it is hoped, will perform an ancient musical ritual to sooth the troubled beast. Without a central character, and with a narra find out more...