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How ‘Gunda’ Director Victor Kossakovsky Found a Kindred Spirit in Joaquin Phoenix

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Damon Wise Russian director Victor Kossakovsky returned to documentary festival IDFA – where he has been a frequent guest, and won awards with “Pavel and Lyalya” and “Belovy” – with “Gunda,” a film that made a statement in more ways than one.

Shot entirely in black and white, without voiceover or music, it documents the life and times of a pig named Gunda and the piglets she raises on an unnamed farm somewhere—a scenario that does not end well for either pigs or audience.

Unsurprisingly, Kossakovsky is a vegetarian, and, as he told journalist Derk Sauer, this immersive experience has personal roots.“When I was four years old,” he recalled, “I spent some months in a village, and there was a piglet there.

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