Anyone curious about how to dismantle and pack a Mongolian yurt will learn that, and plenty more, in "The Cave of the Yellow Dog." Second docudrama from Byambasuren Davaa, co-helmer of "The Story of ...

Possessed of the most minimal of storytelling arcs, “The Cave of the Yellow Dog” can’t be summed up easily–to do so is to miss the core of its uncommon loveliness. Though ostensibly the film hinges on ...

Does the name Byambasuren Davaa ring a bell? It should. Audiences were alternately transported and charmed by the Mongolian director's 2003 sleeper hit, "The Story of the Weeping Camel," which she ...

It was shaped by an artist. Same goes for the director’s second film, “The Cave of the Yellow Dog.” We are back in the grasslands of Mongolia, where a nomadic family has pitched their yurt for the ...

With elegant simplicity, writer-director Byambasuren Davaa captures both the routine and the divine in her tale of a nomadic Mongolian family dealing with changing times. While demonstrating the ...

Director Byambasuren Davaa’s follow-up to The Story of the Weeping Camel takes a classic tale of girl meets dog and sets it in the filmmaker’s native Mongolia, where it becomes an allegory of social ...

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IF you like watching documentary dramas about remote communities then this is a slight, but engaging alternative to the screen-hogging might of Superman and Pirates. It's another German-backed film ...