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STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL

An enchanting story uniquely comprised of equal parts reality, drama, and magic that follows the adventures of a family of herders in Mongolia's Gobi desert who face a crisis when a mother camel rejects her newborn calf after a particularly difficult birth. Without its mother's milk, the newborn will not survive so, in accordance with an ancient ritual, a musician is summoned from a far-off village to perform a ceremony that is meant to coax the mother into nursing her baby. Apart from reuniting parent with child, legend has it that the ritual has the miraculous side effect of causing the mother to weep. Exploring a distant and exotic culture in which tradition, myth, and family unity (both human and animal) are essential elements of daily life. This film offers a window into a different way of life and the universal terrain of the heart