Topic: Exotic tale of a mother camel in the Gobi Desert who rejects her newborn colt after a difficult birth, and the family of nomads who perform an ancient musical ritual to reunite them. Financier: ...

The sorrows of young Botok began when he was half-born. His mother, a regal dromedary named Ingen Temee — who is also the first-billed star and title character in The Story of the Weeping Camel — got ...

“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 ...

In the Gobi desert, a camel has rejected her newborn calf after a prolonged delivery. But the nomadic shepherd family that owns mother and baby is able to successfully reunite them by, of all things, ...

Camels are always ready for their close-ups. Regal creatures of enormous dignity and unexpected elegance, they have considerable screen presence, the animal equivalent of star power to burn. Though ...

Documentaries in other languages often seem more like conventional narrative films, because the unfamiliarity of the vocal inflections and the necessity of subtitles flattens out the difference ...

I realize it’s a tough sell getting anybody to see a semi-documentary called The Story of the Weeping Camel, but trust me—you’ll be weeping right along with the camel. Set in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, ...

The fauna takes top billing in remarkable docu shot by students from Munich's film school in the arid expanses of Mongolia's Gobi Desert. Preemed at the Munich fest in June, and a hot ticket among ...

The Story of the Weeping Camel is the tale of a multi-generational family that lives in the deserts of Mongolia with a large herd of goats and camels. It’s springtime, and the camels are giving birth.

f you’ve never seen the oddly beautiful springtime of the Gobi Desert or the mildly nauseating glisten of a newly born camel, “The Story of the Weeping Camel” can guarantee at least two new pleasures.