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Director of Screening Scott Aigner introduces GUNDA and talkback to follow feature presentation Gunda is the protagonist of this gentle black-and-white documentary triptych. She takes care of her little ones, accompanies them on a journey of discovery and then takes a break to recharge her batteries. She tentatively approaches the camera. Does she know what her fate is? What might she be thinking? What does she think of us? Gunda is one of several hundred million pigs that inhabit the planet, alongside a billion cattle, represented in the film by two gracefully mooing cows, and over 20 billion chickens, exemplified here by a one-legged chicken stumbling its way through the world. Whether rooting through the mud, swatting away flies or searching for worms, they all are heroes. And film essayist Victor Kossakovsky is and remains adamant: after this film meat consumption is impossible. His indignation about the ignorance of humans in general and the degradation of these creatures in particular flows into his conceptually minimalist, but visually brilliant meditation.&nbsp;Gunda&nbsp;is an intimate portrait. An intervention in the form of a modest gesture. A film that ascribes majestic greatness to the underdogs. And makes us think. In the very least. (Berlinale)

GUNDA INTRODUCTION WITH SCOTT AIGNER

Director of Screening Scott Aigner introduces GUNDA and talkback to follow feature presentation

Gunda is the protagonist of this gentle black-and-white documentary triptych. She takes care of her little ones, accompanies them on a journey of discovery and then takes a break to recharge her batteries. She tentatively approaches the camera. Does she know what her fate is? What might she be thinking? What does she think of us? Gunda is one of several hundred million pigs that inhabit the planet, alongside a billion cattle, represented in the film by two gracefully mooing cows, and over 20 billion chickens, exemplified here by a one-legged chicken stumbling its way through the world. Whether rooting through the mud, swatting away flies or searching for worms, they all are heroes. And film essayist Victor Kossakovsky is and remains adamant: after this film meat consumption is impossible. His indignation about the ignorance of humans in general and the degradation of these creatures in particular flows into his conceptually minimalist, but visually brilliant meditation.&nbsp;Gunda&nbsp;is an intimate portrait. An intervention in the form of a modest gesture. A film that ascribes majestic greatness to the underdogs. And makes us think. In the very least. (Berlinale) Director BioBorn in the USSR in 1961, he began his career at the Leningrad Documentary Film Studio in 1978 as an assistant cameraman, assistant director and editor. In 1988, he graduated from the Higher Courses for Film Writers and Directors in Moscow. He has taken on the roles of writer, director, editor and cinematographer in many of his films. His international breakthrough,&nbsp;The Belovs, won the Joris Ivens Award and the Audience Award at IDFA in Amsterdam. Since then, his work has won numerous awards. His previous film,&nbsp;Aquarela, premiered at Venice in 2018. This film has been generously sponsored by Ursla and Matthew Null <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/177d1cdfc282d33094a7f1d19a6b909a.jpg" width="491">

GUNDA

Where his prior film, the acclaimed epic AQUARELA, was a reminder of the fragility of human tenure on earth, in GUNDA, master filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky reminds us that we share our planet with billions of other animals. Through encounters with a mother sow (the eponymous Gunda), two ingenious cows, and a scene-stealing, one-legged chicken, Kossakovsky movingly recalibrates our moral universe, reminding us of the inherent value of life and the mystery of all animal consciousness, including our own.

Festival host Jack Hanley and Director of Screening Scott Aigner discuss GUNDA

GUNDA TALKBACK WITH JACK HANLEY AND SCOTT AIGNER

Festival host Jack Hanley and Director of Screening Scott Aigner discuss GUNDA

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