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 ...

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 ...

Camels are indisputable evidence of God's vast and embracing sense of humor. Animals that at first glance appear to be homely, ungainly, unworkable accidents of nature become, when viewed in the ...

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 ...