Story of the Weeping Camel
A loving moving film produced by THINKFilm in association with National Geographic and directed by Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni, The Story of the Weeping Camel.
I saw this wonderful film on a DVD and I was so moved by it. The story drilled into my heart. Music can instantly make an animal weep and love her colt; can music soften human hearts so that finally all people in the world can live in harmony and peace. The love between human and animal and the nomad’s love of nature are clearly shown. I believe this documentary film will touch everyone’s heart.
The story is telling of a mother camel that rejects her own new born calf. Without the mother’s milk and care, the new born would die from isolation and hunger.
The camel belongs to a family of nomads who live in the Gobi dessert, they try music therapy on the mother camel and they call upon a musician who plays a Morin Huur (A string instrument with a trapezoid body, played with horsehair bow) to play a song and one of the family members sings along to mother camel. Hearing the music and song the mother camel is touched and her eyes fill with tears. Finally the weeping mother accepts the new born colt.
The nomadic people of Mongolia are self-sufficient people, they have their own view of life. As one of the directors Byambasuren Davaa said about the nomads and I quote “They don’t think about money. Their assets are the animals they have. They cherish nature, as they know that they depend on it, and they have a very strong connection with the animals. They understand that we, as humans, have to adjust to nature and not the other way around. That is the philosophy of the nomads.”
Visit:
www.weepingcamel.com
National Geographic’s Website: Weeping Camel
BBC Review of Weeping Camel
