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 ...

There have been lots of movies about pigs over the years, but rare is the movie that lets the pigs onscreen just be pigs. More often than not, the animals are anthropomorphized or metaphorized.

"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 ...

Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda is, in the barest sense, a film about a short period in the life of a pig. Gunda, the pig in question, is a Norwegian sow with disarmingly expressive eyes and, at the start ...