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2026
Filmfest Dresden
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Partner: Filmfest Dresden
Director:
Clara Helbig
Filmmaker's profile
In 2018, a Polish cow escaped en route to the slaughterhouse, swam to a nearby island, and unexpectedly disrupted the town’s established dynamics—soon becoming a minor media sensation. This film revisits the event, probing the narratives we construct about the countryside & other beings.
Duration: 16min.
Country: Germany, Poland, Ghana
Language: Polish
Year: 2026
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Topic: Activism, Animals, Capitalism, Community, Documentary, Environment, Experimental, Fable, Folklore, Freedom, Landscape, Nature, Otherness, Patriarchy, Society, Struggle, Survival, Violence, Water
Director: Clara Helbig
Production company: n/a
Writer: Clara Helbig
Cinematographer: Ada Wesolowska
Editor: Clara Helbig
Actors: Lukasz Patorak , Maciej Zych , Jacek Opara , Czeslaw Bilobran
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