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Rams

Hrútar

2015

In a remote Icelandic valley, two estranged brothers who have not spoken in forty years despite tending sheep side by side are forced to cooperate when a disease threatens to wipe out their prized ancestral flock. A spare, deadpan, and moving drama.

Why it’s here

A major Icelandic rural drama about sheep farmers, landscape, family conflict, and national rural life.

Part of 10 Essential Icelandic Films

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