Film Theatre 2023/24

Lamb (Dýrið, Iceland, Sweden, Poland, 2021, 106 min.)

 
In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her.
 

Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson
Screenplay: Sjón, Valdimar Jóhannsson
Photo: Eli Arenson
Edited by: Agnieszka Glińska
Music by: Þórarinn Guðnason
Cast: Noomi Rapace (Maria), Hilmir Snær Guðnason (Ingvar), Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (Petur), Ingvar Sigurdsson (človek s televizije), Ester Bibi (ženska)
Production company: Black Spark Film & TV, Chimney Poland, Chimney Sweden, Film i Väst
Festivals and Awards: Cannes 2021: Originality Award of the Special View section; Sitges 2021: Best Feature Award, Best Actress Award, Citizen Kane Award for Debut Director; European Film Awards 2021: Best Visual Effects Award; Strasbourg – European Fantastic Film Festival 2021: Jury Special Mention for Best Feature Film; Trieste – Science + Fiction 2021: RAI 4 award for the best film of the festival, online critics award; Karlovy Vary 2021; Jerusalem 2021; Zurich 2021; London – BFI 2021; Riga 2021; Les Arcs 2021
Distributed by: Demiurg