Country: United Kingdom
Language: English

“An immersive and impassioned documentary from one of Britain’s most formidable filmmakers… powerful to watch”

—Andrea Arnold for Empire Magazine

Official Selection of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Telluride, and DOC NYC. Acclaimed director Andrea Arnold’s (American Honey, Big Little Lies) first documentary immerses the audience in life on a dairy farm in rural England through the eyes of Luma, a cow. Empathetic and nearly wordless, the film opens during calving season and captures a world of animal existence that is ordered around service to humans.

Images courtesy of IFC

About the filmmaker:

English director and writer Andrea Arnold won the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film for Wasp in 2005. Her debut feature Red Road won the Jury Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, and her second feature Fish Tank won the Jury Prize in 2009. In 2011, she directed an adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, which won Best Cinematography at the Venice International Film Festival. Her 2016 film American Honey was nominated for numerous awards, including a BAFTA and 6 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Arnold has directed series including episodes of Amazon Studio’s Transparent and HBO’s Big Little Lies.

Cow is Arnold’s first feature length documentary.

MAJOR SUPPORT
Ohio Arts Council
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Columbus Foundation
Campus Partners
National Endowment for the Arts

WITH HELP FROM
G&J Pepsi
WOSU Public Media