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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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A family of herders in Mongolia's Gobi desert face a crisis when a mother camel rejects her newborn calf after a particularly difficult birth. Without it's mother's milk, the little camel will not ...

Inspired by Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the North), this ethnographic drama by Luigi Falorni and Byambasuren Davaa focuses on a family of Mongolian herders in the Gobi Desert who face a crisis when ...