Rams (film)

Rams

Film poster
Directed by Grímur Hákonarson
Produced by Grímar Jónsson
Written by Grímur Hákonarson
Starring
Music by Atli Örvarsson
Cinematography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Edited by Kristján Loðmfjörð
Production
company
  • Aeroplan Films
  • Film Farms
  • Netop Films
  • Profile Pictures
Distributed by Cohen Media Group (US)
Release dates
  • 15 May 2015 (2015-05-15) (Cannes)
  • 28 May 2015 (2015-05-28) (Iceland)
Running time
 92 minutes[1]
Country
  • Iceland
  • Denmark[2][3] (in association with Norway and Poland[4])
Language Icelandic
Budget €1.75 million
Box office $1.5 million[5]

Rams (Icelandic: Hrútar) is a 2015 Icelandic drama film written and directed by Grímur Hákonarson. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival[6][7] where it won the top prize.[8] It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[9]

It was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.[10][11]

Plot

Two sheep farming brothers who haven't spoken to each other for forty years and suffer petty jealousies and rivalries are affected by the infection of one of their flocks by scrapie. They live in adjacent properties. Both are attached to their flocks, and are unmarried. All the sheep in both farms and across their valley have to be destroyed to avoid re-infection, and their wooden pens must be burned and barns disinfected. One brother, Gummi, kills his own flock before the biohazards team arrive, but hides a few ewes (seemingly free of scrapie), and a ram, in the basement of his house. They are the last of their breed. His errant brother Kiddi, who refused to kill his own sheep to disinfect his barns and is frequently drunk and abusive, accidentally discovers them. So does a member of the cleanup team, who reports to his superiors. The two brothers are then forced to collaborate to save the sheep, taking them to the highlands in a blizzard, where their quad bike bogs down in a snowdrift and Gummi wanders off and is found near death from exposure, by his brother. The film ends with the brothers in a snow shelter, but reconciled.

Cast

Awards

Rams won the Un Certain Regard Prize for 2015, the top prize conferred by a jury presided over by Isabella Rossellini.[8] At the 2015 Transilvania International Film Festival, Rams won the Special Jury Award (i.e. third place) and also won the Audience Award (most votes for a film in competition).[12] It won the Audience award at the Tromsø International Film Festival and Iranian Fajr Film Festival in 2016.[13] [14]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "RAMS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Rams (Hrútar)". Cineuropa. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. ↑ "Rams (press kit)" (PDF). New Europe Film Sales. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Wendy Mitchell (26 November 2015). "'Rams' director Grimur Hákonarson plots next film". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2 January 2016. Rams was a co-production with Denmark’s Profile Pictures and made in association with Norway’s Film Farms and Poland’s Aeroplan
  5. ↑ "Hrutar (2015)". The Numbers. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "2015 Official Selection". Cannes. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Screenings Guide". Festival de Cannes. 6 May 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  8. 1 2 Rebeccas Ford (23 May 2015). "Cannes: 'Rams' Wins Un Certain Regard Prize". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 23 May 2015.
  9. ↑ "Sandra Bullock’s ‘Our Brand Is Crisis,’ Robert Redford’s ‘Truth’ to Premiere at Toronto". Variety. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Iceland Sends ‘Rams’ to Vie For Foreign Language Oscar Nom". Variety. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  11. ↑ "Oscars: Iceland Selects 'Rams' For Foreign-Language Category". Hollywood Reporter. 8 September 2015. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
  12. ↑ "14th Transilvania IFF Awards" (Press release). Transilvania International Film Festival. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  13. ↑ Tromsø International Film Festival Awards 2016
  14. ↑ http://en.mehrnews.com/news/116102/Icelandic-film-Rams-a-hit-with-Iranian-audience

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