[1] The film was highlighted in the World Development Report 2017 as an example of how policy making is a "result of a bargaining process among actors, who frequently have diverse and even opposing preferences and interests.

His biggest dream is to play soccer with the neighborhood kids but they only make fun of his poor clothes.

[10] At the Arizona International Film Festival, the movie received a special award for "Bridging Cultures".

[1] Diane Clark of The Village Voice called it "curiously uncomfortable to watch" and its "sentimentality is like wind rushing in.

"[13] The UB Post highlighted the allegory in the story to Mongolia's current predicament of facing modernization and its discovery of natural resources.