Date: Thursday 19th May 2011
Time: 6.00-8.30pm
Venue: Copland lecture theatre, Building 24, ANU
How much do you know about Mongolian Culture? Well, Mongolia is not the far side of the Moon for ANU students anymore. Mongols are interesting people to meet and to be friend with !
APSS (Asia Pacific Students` Society) and ANUMoSA (Mongolian Students` Association) proudly host Mongolian Culture and Movie Night at ANU.
This event includes
– Meet with Mongols and learn Mongolian cultural heritage (traditional games and trying on costumes)
– Watching Oscar nominated Mongolian documentary movie, “The story of the weeping camel”
– Free real Mongolian traditional food “huushuur”
About the movie
Directed by Luigi Falorni, Byambasuren Davaa
…A family of nomadic shepherds assists the births of their camel herd. One of the camels has an excruciatingly difficult delivery but, with help from the family, out comes a rare white calf. Despite the efforts of the shepherds, the mother rejects the newborn, coldly refusing it her milk and her motherly love. When any hope for the little one seems to have vanished, the nomads send their two young boys on a journey through the desert, in search of a musician…