Watch how Victor Kossakovsky constructed a camera-friendly barn, used a disco ball for light, and stayed true to the detailed language of pigs. “Gunda” is, in many ways, a remarkably simple film about ...

Joaquin Phoenix serves as an executive producer on Viktor Kossakovsky’s mesmerizing look at the lives of farm animals. More experience than movie, “Gunda” is a visionary case for veganism in black and ...

Viktor Kosakovskiy’s existentialist, meditative masterpiece Gunda reminds a great deal of the contemplative works of Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas. Using only diegetic sound and stark, expressive ...

As he made his way through the pre-pandemic awards season last year, picking up trophies for his performance in “Joker,” actor Joaquin Phoenix gave an increasingly powerful series of speeches. Phoenix ...

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 ...

THR review: Shot in black-and-white and dialogue-free, 'Gunda,' the new documentary from 'Aquarela' director Victor Kossakovsky, spends quality time with farm animals, centering on a sow raising her ...

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 ...

Joaquin Phoenix, among the world’s most prominent vegan campaigners, is merely an executive producer – and that can mean anything – on this wonderful documentary concerning the life of a charismatic ...

"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 ...

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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 ...