Rams (film)
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| Directed by | Grímur Hákonarson |
| Produced by | Grímar Jónsson |
| Written by | Grímur Hákonarson |
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| Music by | Atli Örvarsson |
| Cinematography | Sturla Brandth Grøvlen |
| Edited by | Kristján Loðmfjörð |
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| Distributed by | Cohen Media Group (US) |
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92 minutes |
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| Language | Icelandic |
| Budget | €1.75 million |
| Box office | $1.90 million |
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 where it won the Prix Un Certain Regard. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
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 after his sheep were exterminated, accidentally discovers Gummi's saves. 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, the sheep wander off and Gummi is found near death from hypothermia, by his brother. The film ends with the brothers in a makeshift snow shelter and acknowledging their reconciliation.
Rams won the prize for Un Certain Regard for 2015, the top prize conferred by a jury presided over by Isabella Rossellini. 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). It won the Audience award at the Tromsø International Film Festival and Iranian Fajr Film Festival in 2016.
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