Co-directors Davaa, a native of Mongolia, and Falorni, a native of Italy, made the film as their thesis project while enrolled at the Munich Film School. Menemsha Films took notice of the feature ...

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 ...

Fair warning: If the behavior of camels in the Gobi Desert during the spring birthing season is not high on your things-to-learn-about list, and you don’t hunger to know everything about southern ...

“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 ...

The plot for "The Story of the Weeping Camel" is pretty simple: A camel gives birth to a rare white calf and refuses to nurse it, so the Mongolian shepherds who live in the unforgiving Gobi Desert do ...

RATING: Rated PG-13 for mild thematic content, including fairly graphic birth scene. THE LOWDOWN: Luminous, lyrical reality-based tale of a Mongolian family's efforts to get a camel to accept her ...

Fair warning: If the behavior of camels in the Gobi Desert during the spring birthing season is not high on your things-to-learn-about list and you don’t hunger to know everything about southern ...