Slaughterhouse owner Werner Haas has a ton of slaughter waste dumped on his front lawn in the middle of the night. Fuming mad, he files charges against unknown persons and foolishly sets something in motion that can’t be stopped.
A pregnant woman travels along the countryside to move into a house by her own, hopping to reconnect with the inner nature of her current body.
A Chilean family is shaken by the sudden return of a long-dead matriarch.
Naser's sick cow is about to die. Khazar (his granddaughter) wishes for it to survive and the cow is healed. Naser recognizes this as a miracle and goes after other sick cows, along with Khazar, to repeat the miracle.
The Cow
A mother, activist daughter and a free cow meet somewhere in the forest. The latter decided, together with its herd, to start a new life on its own account. But now, cows are to be caught and sentenced to death. Sara refuses to accept it. The girl escapes from home to defend the herd. Her mother Alicia follows the daughter.
An 8-year old farm-girl teaches herself to fly, but when her favourite heifer gives birth to a male calf she ends up learning a harder lesson.
Otis is a mischievous, carefree Holstein cow who lives on a farm where, unbeknownst to humans, the animals are anthropomorphic. He prefers having fun with his best friends: Pip the mouse, Freddy the ferret, Peck the rooster, and Pig the pig - rather than following strict rules and accepting responsibility. This annoys his stern adoptive father Ben, the leader of the farm's community. One evening, Otis convinces Ben to cover his night watch so he can attend a massive party in the barn and impress Daisy, a pregnant cow who recently arrived at the farm with her best friend Bessy as a newcomer. As the animals party, Dag the coyote and his pack attempt to raid the chicken coop. Ben fends them off alone but is fatally wounded and killed. Otis must now learn the value of responsibility when he becomes the leader of his farm home's community.
Long ago in a land with an ailing king, there was a pair of boys who looked exactly alike, a pauper called Mickey and the other, the Crown Prince.
A close-up portrait of the daily lives of a pair of cows: told by way of some narrative-free, intimate POV photography, with plenty of close shot images, we follow the daily routine of these animals as they live what can only be described as mundane, boring lives - all with an ultimate purpose within the human food chain.
A Bavarian music band moves into a Berlin brothel for two months and extends the stay due to the excellent night service. To fully ensure physical well-being, a dumpling cook and a dairy cow enter the house.
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
A look at the fast-paced life of cattlemen by San Francisco-based director Michael Jacobs in his new documentary, which follows the ups and downs of the National Western Stock Show in Denver, Colorado.
The young calf Klara dreams of becoming a big star, and is invited to her father’s farm. The ox Mosk is a big rock star, according to her mother, which is revealed isn’t true at all.
Empar, a 60-year-old farmer, needs her cow Tona to get pregnant in order to keep her farm. After several failed attempts, she asks Bernat, the owner of the biggest farm in the area, for help. When Tona becomes pregnant, the vet warns that the pregnancy is risky. Empar confronts the village to protect her cow's peace of mind. With the help of Riqui, a young newcomer, and Bernat, she discovers that it is never too late to start again.
The Cow: An Unexpected Journey
This film is about the cow living in an polluted enviroment.
waiting_for_cows explores the complex relationship between humans, animals and technology. Set on a Frisian farm, the main protagonists are a trio of Dutch dairy cows monitored by wearables, conditioned by algorithms and quantified in data. Dairy bovines and their farmers have become some of the unlikely forerunners of agricultural automation. Both human and animal are entangled in systems of efficiency, productivity and time management where every cow is assigned a Key Performance Indicator by agri-tech companies. Through a data-led film experience, waiting_for_cows offers rare glimpses into contemporary machinic rituals of farm life where the flow of bovine data reveals much larger systems of power. Set against this backdrop of technology and control, the waiting_for_cows immersive installation reveals an allegorical tale, opening space for reflection.
A beast at sea yearns for more.
When Ramesh marries Kusum and hopes to have a better future, things don't go well and in a series of events a cow is accidently killed in his fields. Ramesh has to live in exile as a part of the punishment. Punishment takes a toll on the couple and Ramesh descends into madness. Slowly animals and human die in the village and people blame Kusum because of her past. A pandemic hits the village and villagers had to flee. Having served his sentence Ramesh returns to the empty village like a king.