The Story of the Weeping Camel

Combining drama and documentary, 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 eke out their living in this remote dustbowl, crisis comes in the shape of a newborn camel rejected by its mother after an agonising birth. They undertake to rear the calf by hand, but the longer he's denied his mother's milk, the more likely it is the little camel will die. After failed efforts to reconcile mother and baby, the family dispatches young Dude (Enkhbulgan Ikhbayar) and his little brother Ugna (Uuganbaatar Ikhbayar) to ride across the plains and fetch help. But rather than a veterinarian, it is a violinist (Munkhbayar Lhagvaa) who's called upon to conduct an ancient ritual thought to inspire a maternal instinct so strong, it brings a tear to the eye. (official distributor synopsis)