Gunda

"Simply the most astonishing, moving, engrossing and beautiful film I've seen in months."

"The film is ultimately about bigger issues... but Kossakovsky has found a brilliant, emotional and daring way into those concerns."

"Feels like an advancement of the nature documentary form."

"A landmark film from a bracingly original filmmaker."

"Kossakovsky isn't out to lecture or confront his audience with moral rhetoric or shock imagery, but to encourage understanding of farm animal life as it's being lived - not just valuable at the point of death."

"By the time the credits roll on the film, we realize we've been watching not so much a sketch of the lives of farm animals as a threnody for their deaths."

"There's no dialogue; we just watch the animals go about their lives while we experience the quietly dawning recognition that these animals have real lives."

"Sublimely beautiful and profoundly moving..."

"The message comes through loud and painfully clear, no dubbed voices required."

"Pigs are smart... An improbably beautiful work of barnyard art, Gunda figures that we're smart too."