Director Viktor Kossakovsky made a movie for audiences to rethink their relationship to farm animals, and earned Joaquin Phoenix's support. No stranger to unique subject matter affecting the world at ...

One of 2020’s most gorgeously photographed films frames the year’s least likely breakout star: a formidable Norwegian sow named Gunda, who lends her name to the latest documentary from Russian ...

Neon has released the official full trailer for “Gunda,” an experimental black and white film about the life of farm animals that took this year’s Berlin Film Festival by storm. “Gunda” is the latest ...

Have you ever wondered what life is really like for a pig? Well, then the Gunda documentary is absolutely the perfect film for you to watch this weekend. Directed by Russian documentary filmmaker ...

Left to right: "Mr. Soul" (Shoes in the Bed Productions), "Crip Camp" (Netflix), "Gunda" (Neon) “Crip Camp,” “Gunda” and “Mr. SOUL!” led all films in nominations for the fifth annual Critics Choice ...

In what is signaling a very good year for documentaries, the Critics’ Choice Association on Monday announced its list of nominations for the fifth annual Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards, and if the ...

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"My call is for empathy," says Victor Kossakovsky, the filmmaker behind the black-and-white documentary, which required him to film the daily lives of farm animals for several months. By Rebecca Ford ...

The barnyard setting of “Gunda” could hardly be more familiar, but in Russian director Victor Kossakovsky's documentary, a pigsty is rendered an almost alien landscape. Kossakovsky's film is shot in ...

Imagine a mother raising a large family, nurturing her children from birth, tending to their every need, only to have them plucked from her, not knowing where they’ve been taken. Imagine the mother’s ...

Gunda is a sow who is raising a dozen piglets on a Norwegian farm, taking the little ones, over a period of months, from the straw of her wooden pen to roll, tumble and run around amid the trees and ...

“I spent 20 years to find a producer,” Kossakovsky reveals during the panel for the Neon film at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary event. “No one believed in this idea. No one.” The idea was to show ...