St. Louis International Film Festival - LEiT featured in stlmag.com
"There’s no need for melodrama; the documentary gathers its own momentum, taking on the suspense of a thriller and the inevitability of a tearjerker as you wait for 7-month-old, three-legged Mosha to get a prosthesis. The film reveals the cruelty of trainers secretly inflicting pain to force the elephants to paint for the tourists. The misery of elephants, their feet hypersensitive to natural vibrations in the ground, forced to plod through traffic in Bangkok. The trust of a blind elephant as she lifts a man with her trunk so he can sweep the dust from her wrinkled back.
The film cuts back to Salwala, whose mix of solitary resolve and melancholy are almost as moving as her elephants’ plight. And then we see baby Mosha, shyly tucking his trunk up in what looks like a grin as the prosthesis is fitted, and he takes his first tentative steps."
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