We are so fortunate that Sas Carey will return to the Charlotte Library to show her film, Transition. (Info about the film is below.) Sas is an award-winning filmmaker who has focused her films on nomadic reindeer herders of Mongolia. She began visiting Mongolia as a nurse bringing much needed medical supplies, and that work evolved into wanting to share the stories of the people she met with the wider world. They have much to teach us about living simply and living rightly on the land.

Participants were impressed during Sas’s last visit, when we watched her film Migration, and she was asked then if she might be willing to come back to show other films. Her non-profit organization, Nomadicare, supports and preserves traditional Mongolian culture through healthcare, films, and stories.

The website, www.nomadicare.org, provides background and information about her work. The event is free, but donations will be appreciated to help Sas continue her good works. She also will bring craft items made by Mongolian reindeer herders to sell as a part of raising funds. And this time she will bring her newly published memoir, Marrying Mongolia, available for sale. So, there will be many ways to support her work, including direct donations.

In the film Transition 27-year-old medical doctor Khongoroo grapples with what it means to remain in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar. She misses the beautiful but remote East Taiga, where two-dozen families and relatives live in a tight-knit Dukha reindeer herding community. Ulaanbaatar, a city of 1.5 million, offers her a job when the countryside does not. With work in the city, Khongoroo must decide whether to risk the health of her three-year old daughter in the polluted capital or leave her with her grandmother where the air is clean. Through the eyes and heart of Khongoroo, we experience the challenges from the city to the taiga and back that modern life brings.