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
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THE EAGLE HUNTRESS (2016)
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Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle huntress.
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THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL (2004)
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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
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