TWO BROTHERS have lived side by side for 40 years, tending their sheep farms, but in all that time they have refused to speak to each other, communicating only via written messages delivered by a pet dog.
This is Rams, a new Icelandic film which opens in The EYE Cinema tomorrow [Friday February 5]. Written and directed by Grimur Hakonarson, it is the poignant, touching, and at times comic story, of elderly brothers Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjónsson ) and Kiddi (Theodór Júlíusson ), intent of maintaining their sheep farms and their four decades long grudge.
However when one sheep contracts a contagious disease, the livelihood of the brothers, and the entire rural community they are a part of, comes under threat. Can the brothers help solve the crisis and set aside their differences? The film won the main prize in the prestigious Un Certain Regard strand at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. It also won the Audience Award at the 2016 Tromsø International Film Festival.
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