The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005)

Original title

Шар нохойн там

Directed by

Byambasuren Davaa

Genre

documentary film, drama film

Country

Mongolia, Germany

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

AA

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 79 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mongolian girl finds a stray dog and wants to keep it. Her father tells her she must give the dog away. The story shows her learning to accept this change and the reward that comes later.

gentleslow-pacedreflectivemelancholichopefulnaturalisticfamily-centeredquiet

What happens

The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Mongolian Шар нохойн там) is a 2005 Mongolian/German film written and directed by Byambasuren Davaa. The film was submitted as Mongolia's contender for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It won the 2006 Deutscher Filmpreis Award for Best Children's Picture. It also won Golden Starfish Awards at the 13th Hamptons International Film Festival for best narrative feature, best original movie score and best cinematography. The story is a gentle fable about the limitations of life and its acceptance. A girl learns the painful lesson of letting go of want and desire when her father insists on leaving her newfound stray dog. However, the ending of the film offers hope—another lesson of life being full of changes and the consequences of change may bring unexpected rewards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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