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Originally, Mongolian director Byambasuren Davaa had planned to make a different fourth film set in her home country, but upon re-visiting Mongolia and seeing the countryside changed by the over-exploitation of mining companies, she decided to tackle this development in her new feature. In Mongolia, as well as other parts of the world, the effect of global mining for resources is quite severe, changing the course of rivers if not depleting them altogether, while at the same time taking away people’s living foundations, with certain nomad tribes forced to move away and accept a small compensation for the land they had been living on for so many generations. Based on these effects, her own observations as well as an old Mongolian folk tale, Davaa’s feature “Veins of the World” tells a story about the unity of the world and its people, and how greed has come to corrode this idea.

Originally, Mongolian director Byambasuren Davaa had planned to make a different fourth film set in her home country, but upon re-visiting Mongolia and seeing the countryside changed by the over-exploitation of mining companies, she decided to tackle this development in her new feature. In Mongolia, as well as other parts of the world, the effect of global mining for resources is quite severe, changing the course of rivers if not depleting them altogether, while at the same time taking away people’s living foundations, with certain nomad tribes forced to move away and accept a small compensation for the land they had been living on for so many generations. Based on these effects, her own observations as well as an old Mongolian folk tale, Davaa’s feature “Veins of the World” tells a story about the unity of the world and its people, and how greed has come to corrode this idea.