Some were bemused earlier this month when Joaquin Phoenix used his entirely expected Oscar win as a less predictable occasion for an impassioned animal-rights plea: It was certainly the first time ...

Russian documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky and the production team behind his Oscar-shortlisted feature “Gunda” will follow up with the second instalment in his “Empathy Trilogy.” AC Independent ...

"Aquarela" director Victor Kossakovsky returns with a new film at the Berlin International Film Festival. The 2020 Berlin International Film Festival is just getting started, but Joaquin Phoenix and ...

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 ...

I recently watched an amazing film called GUNDA that literally moved me all over the place. I've studied animal emotions for decades and thought I'd pretty much seen all there is to see, however, ...

"Gunda is a mesmerizing perspective on sentience within animal species, normally—and perhaps purposely—hidden from our view. Displays of pride and reverence, amusement and bliss at a pig’s inquisitive ...

Victor Kossakovsky’s Gunda is, in the barest sense, a film about a short period in the life of a pig. Gunda, the pig in question, is a Norwegian sow with disarmingly expressive eyes and, at the start ...

Not since 'Babe' has a humble farm pig's fate been as high-stakes as it is in Victor Kossakovsky's captivating, wordless doc. Some were bemused earlier this month when Joaquin Phoenix used his ...

Not since 'Babe' has a humble farm pig's fate been as high-stakes as it is in Victor Kossakovsky's captivating, wordless doc. Some were bemused earlier this month when Joaquin Phoenix used his ...