Gunda

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Gunda

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2021,

1h 33m,

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Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, Master director Victor Kossakowsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an other worldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it.

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Gunda takes an absorbingly meditative look at farm life from the animals' perspective, tacitly posing questions about our relationship to food along the way.

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Ben Nicholson

Sight & Sound

May 14, 2026

Berger described the abyss of non-comprehension across which humans look at animals, and Gunda attempts to bridge it, just a little.

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Christina Newland

iNews.co.uk

Sep 23, 2024

4/5

The movie is a genuine inquiry into how animals experience the world.

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Bilge Ebiri

New York Magazine/Vulture

Aug 11, 2021

Kossakovsky's mesmerizing, gorgeous documentary about the life of a mother pig and her babies on an unnamed farm somewhere in the world serves as a bracing corrective to the way animals are usually portrayed on film.

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

Jul 11, 2024

4/5

Startling in its intimacy and measured in its pacing, Gunda is a one-of-a-kind nature documentary which serves as an abrupt but much-needed wake-up call to humanity.

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Diego Batlle

Otroscines.com

Aug 24, 2022

4/5

Kossakovsky is respectful and achieves a harmonious and elegant narration. [Full review in Spanish]

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 21, 2022

4.5/5

There’s no music to guide our emotions or narration to explain what we’re seeing. It doesn’t frame or stealthily edit scenes for dramatic effect. Instead “Gunda” asks its audience to observe, absorb, and ponder.

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Victor Kossakovsky

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Victor Kossakovsky

Writer

Ainara Vera

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Anita Rehoff Larsen

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Experiential cinema in its purest form, GUNDA chronicles the unfiltered lives of a mother pig, a flock of chickens, and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, Master director Victor Kossakowsky invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, taking in their world with a magical patience and an other worldly perspective. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness, and reckon with the role humanity plays in it.

Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Producer: Anita Rehoff Larsen, Joslyn Barnes, Susan Rockefeller
Screenwriter: Victor Kossakovsky, Ainara Vera
Distributor: NEON
Production Co: Norwegian Film Institute, Louverture Films, Hailstone Films, Fritt Ord Foundation, Sant & Usant, Empathy Arts, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Artemis Rising Foundation, Storyline Studios
Rating: G
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 16, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2021
Box Office (Gross USA): $110.4K
Runtime: 1h 33m
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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