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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“The Story of the Weeping Camel” is further evidence that the most universal subjects are often best handled with an emphasis on simplicity. The Mongolian film – made with nonprofessional actors, ...

If there's a film that will please adults and children more than the charming new picture, "The Story of the Weeping Camel," we'd like to know about it. {image1}Who says there are no movies out there ...

Corrections were made to this review on July 7, 2004. The fauna takes top billing over the humans in “The Story of the Weeping Camel,” a remarkable documentary shot by students from Munich’s film ...

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 ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Well, this film’s about as far from action-packed as you’re likely to get — and no, the title isn’t allegorical, it’s quite ...

In a middle-of-nowhere area on the fringe of the Gobi Desert (an isolated place that seems to exist outside of time), a nomadic family of shepherds lives a simple, difficult life. The relationship ...