Gunda
First screened in June 2025
Director: Viktor Kossakovsky. Documentary about daily lives of a pig and her piglets, a one-legged rooster, and a herd of cattle on a Norwegian farm.

   
Photo © 2020 NEON/Sant & Usant
In Brief: Silvery documentary of farmlife reveals not just animal rhythms and sensoria but blurry line between thriving and precarity.

VOR:   Of course other filmmakers have ventured this kind of painstaking, unhurried study but few have achieved the poignancy and deceptive subtlety.

Grade: B+


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