FAUNA
Pau Faus | Spain 2023 | 74 min. | Catalan, Spanish with English subtitles
FRIDAY, 17.05. | 5 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
Austrian premiere
In a forest on the outskirts of Barcelona, an ageing shepherd makes his rounds with his flock. On his route is a high-tech animal testing laboratory. In the hermetically sealed laboratory, pigs, ducks, and sheep are led through the security gate one by one. Two opposing worlds meet here. While the shepherd practises a profession that is increasingly threatened with extinction, the scientists are busy as never before, searching for a Covid vaccine.
FAUNA is a science fiction fable about the relationship between humans and animals that reflects on harnessing nature and working with animals in science in post-pandemic times.
Director: Pau Faus
Cinematographer: Carlota Serarols
Editing: Júlia R. Aymar
Sound: Diego Pedragosa, Pau López
Production: Nanouk Films SL
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Visions du Réel 2023 – International Competition
Hot Docs 2023 – World Showcase
Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara 2023 – Best documentary director prize
Docs Barcelona 2023
Krakow Film Festival ‘Focus on Spain’ 2023
Shanghai International Film Festival 2023
DokuFest Prizren 2023
Pärnu International Film Festival 2023
Camden International Film Festival 2023
Goya Award Nomination 2023
Fetival Cinespanol – Cinespaña 2023 – José María Berzoza Prize
Ulsan Ulju Mountain Film Festival 2023 – Special Jury Mention
Science New Wave – Imagine Science Film Festival – In Vivo Award
Devour! The Food Film Fest 2023
MIDBO 2023
RIDM – Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal 2023
DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival 2023
International Documentary Film Festival “ Cinema Verite” 2023
Exile Room 2023
Stranger Than Fiction 2024
FIPADOC 2024
BIOGRAPHY
Barcelona, 1974. Filmmaker, visual artist and architect. He reaches the world of cinema through audiovisual projects linked to contemporary art, social movements and political communication. The multi-award-winning film ‘Ada for Mayor’ (2016) was his debut as a director and scriptwriter. ‘Fauna’ (2023) is his second documentary feature film.
