Altitude announces Victor Kossakovsky's stunning, heartbreaking and important GUNDA will come to UK and Irish cinemas from 11 June 2021.
GUNDA recently screened at the Glasgow Film Festival and Dublin International Film Festival, receiving rave reviews from critics and public alike. GUNDA won the jury award for best cinematography (Egil Haskjold Larsen and Victor Kosakovsky) in Dublin. Ahead of the UK release GUNDA will also screen digitally nationwide from the Borderlines Film Festival from 11-14 April.
Using stark, transcendent black and white cinematography and the farm's ambient soundtrack, in GUNDA master filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through unfiltered encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral universe and invites the audience to slow down and experience life as his subjects do, reminding us of the inherent value and mystery of all animal consciousness, including our own.
Inspired by Kossakovsky's own childhood experiences and a passion project which eventually came to fruition after many attempts spanning decades, GUNDA finally found support from and was produced by Anita Rehoff Larsen of Sant & Usant. It was co-produced by Josyln Barnes and Susan Rockerfeller of Louveture Films and executive produced by Joaquin Phoenix.
GUNDA had its World Premiere earlier this year at Berlin International Film Festival, was also selected for the 58th New York Film Festival and has been nominated for Best Documentary at the 2020 European Film Awards. Try the trailer at the link above.
