Gunda

Released 11 JUNE

ANTICIPATION.

A new work from a reliably interesting filmmaker following a strong festival run. 4

ENJOYMENT.

Kossakovsky and co-cinematographer Egil Håskjold Larson lens the film immaculately. 3

IN RETROSPECT.

This doesn’t bring much new to the ethnographic animal doc format. 2

From Ceyda Torun’s , about stray, which follows dogs roaming the same city, documentaries featuring animals filmed at their own eyel evel have proven popular enough in recent years as to constitute a mini-wave. With , Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky jumps on this trend, training his camera on a litter of pigs on a livestock farm in Norway. A passion project for the Russian documentarian, recalls the simplicity of his early features and both filmed from the vantage of his St Petersburg apartment. Here, the camera is again used as a window into a world, but this time not a human one.