Tag: Livestock

God’s Own Country. Dir. Francis Lee. Picturehouse Entertainment. 2017.

As a film which centers around a farming family, God’s Own Country is inseparable from animal life. Francis Lee sets the 2017 rural drama during the lambing season at a farm, thus crafting a display of the distress caused by animal breeding and the inevitable horror of animal death. Customary to the Social Realist tradition,…

16th January 2022
Animals: Friend or Food?. Dir. Jason Young . National Film Board of Canada. 2003.

Animals, a documentary film directed by Jason Young, follows a young couple’s journey through a year-long experiment in raising their own livestock on a farm in Nova Scotia. The re-birth of the abandoned farm the couple takes over mirrors his re-birth as he changes from urbanite to farmer. After questioning their relationship with animals, the two…

10th November 2015

God’s Own Country. Dir. Francis Lee. Picturehouse Entertainment. 2017.