Byambasuren Davaa

Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar In 1998 she began to work as a moderator and directors assistant with Mongolian National Television In 2000 she moved to Munich Germany to study documentary film and communication sciences at the University of Television and Film Munich1 In 2003 Davaa wrote and directed The Story of the Weeping Camel 2003 which gained several awards and nominations including Best Documentary Film at the Bavarian Film Awards Best Documentary at the 57th Directors Guild of America Awards and a nomination for Best Documentary at the 77th Academy Awards Her other films include The Cave of the Yellow Dog 2006 for which she won the 2006 German Film Award for Best Childrens Film and Veins of the World 2020 Her films through 2006 tell stories embedded in the traditional life of the nomads in Mongolia The subjects of her movies also serve as amateur actors playing mostly themselves which positions her work somewhere between documentary and fiction