The delicate state of Mongolian cinema, past and present, is the subject of this spectacularly beautiful documentary by cinematographer Byamba Sakhya. Even those familiar with Asian film know precious little about Mongolian cinema, which began under heavy Soviet influence and is now in serious decline. Byamba takes us on a road trip through Mongolia's filmmaking history as he travels across remote landscapes with the veteran director Binder Jigjid, going from town to town screening his 2008 film Human Traffic, “a true story about a woman who sold her sister's kidney.” Putting up movie posters in remote villages, coaxing uninterested locals into seeing the film: no matter the meager sales, he recalls that there is a “never-changing ‘thing' in us” that always remains: a passion for filmmaking. Passion, which won the grand prize in the Asian Vision Competition at the 2010 Taiwan International Documentary Festival, also features tantalizing clips from landmark Mongolian films, including fragments censored by the Communist regime.