DC Environmental Film Festival

Beyond Beauty: Taiwan from Above + The Story of the Weeping Camel (Curated by Tom Vick)

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Curated by Tom Vick, Curator of Film at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art

This Oscar-nominated film centers on a ritual among Mongolian nomadic herders in which music is used to convince a mother camel not to reject her young. The bonds between humans, animals, and the nature that both threatens and nourishes them has rarely been so movingly depicted.

  • Year
    2003
  • Runtime
    87 minutes
  • Country
    Germany, Mongolia
  • Director
    Byambasuren Davaa & Luigi Falorni