On Wednesday 6th May at 8pm, Cafe Amsterdam will show the multi award winning film 'The Story Of The Weeping Camel'. The film is in Mongolian with English subtitles (90mins)

This much acclaimed film was made by the same director of the 'Cave Of The Yellow Dog' and Cafe Amsterdam will in the coming months have the premiere in Mongolia of her latest film.

The Story of the Weeping Camel is a 2003 Mongolian documentary distributed by ThinkFilm. It was released internationally in 2004. The movie was directed and written by Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni. The plot is about a family of nomadic shepherds in the Gobi desert trying to save the life of a rare white bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) calf after it was rejected by its mother. The documentary was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Documentary at the 77th Academy Awards.