Simple sincerity, serenity, and a pleasant sadness. A weird guy misses a long-gone past and a future that never came to be.
In a smog-choked village in Haryana, a retired professor turns to an outlawed ritual, crafting a calf doll from a stillborn's body, to save his cow from the urbanization slowly erasing his rural world.
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.
A group of farm animals rise up against their neglectful owner, dreaming of equality and freedom. But as the pigs take control, the revolution turns into tyranny, with truth rewritten and dissent crushed.
The Cow
In the 1820s, a taciturn loner and skilled cook travels west to Oregon Territory, where he meets a Chinese immigrant also seeking his fortune. Soon the two team up on a dangerous scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner’s prized Jersey cow—the first, and only, in the territory.
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.
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.
In 1963 a cow goes missing from an Irish Magdalene Asylum only to reappear 25 years later at a gas station in Texas. The attendant calls the sheriff, the sheriff calls the doctor, and together the three discover a strange mystery in the middle of an American nowhere.
The idea is a simple one: three alpinists climb in the Mont Blanc Massif. This situation brings one face to face with the dangers of the mountain: avalanches, crevasses, fog, the climbing of the rocks, roping up, etc. All of this is magnified, transcended by a remarkable and strong use of the language of cinema. One of the first films about high mountains with Roger Frison-Roche and magnificent music by Maurice Jaubert
Chaotic and broken Tabby Acres moves back to her small town and tries to put her life back together with the help of her best friend and the world of competitive cow showing.
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.
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.
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. But when his adoptive father is killed in a coyote attack, he has a heavy responsibility thrust upon him to become leader of his farm home's community.
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.
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.
The clock is ticking! An old lady and her cow have to rush off on a hot air balloon adventure. What are they up to? And why is the cow so anxious?
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 young activist goes deep into dairy land where he takes on the giants of New Zealand's most powerful industry, and reveals how the sacred cash-cow industry has been milked dry. His journey exposes not only the sustainability crisis and the dangerous denial of impending agricultural disruption, but also what New Zealand and other countries can do to change their fate.