The Story Of The Weeping Camel

A newborn camel is rejected by its mother and a Mongolian herding family scrambles to rectify the situation in Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni's debut feature, part ethnographic study and part fable. Inspired by the films of Robert Flaherty, who combined pure documentary footage with staged sequences, the filmmakers recruited a real multigenerational family of nomadic herders and recorded their daily lives in the harsh Gobi desert while improvising a preconceived story involving a camel-birthing drama and a traditional music ritual. Odgoo and Ikchee share three yurts (traditional animal-skin tents) with their parents, grandparents and children, sons Dude, Ugna (w...