Fauna
- Feature Film
- 2024
- 90 Mins
An old shepherd and his flock live alongside a high-tech laboratory for animal experimentation. Two worlds that are two sides of the same coin. While the shepherd, afflicted with a bone disease, witnesses his profession disappearing, scientists are busier than ever researching the COVID vaccine. Fauna explores the relationship between humans, animals and science in post-pandemic times.
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Film Credits
- Pau Faus Director
- Sergi Cameron Producer
- Ventura Durall Producer
Critical Acclaim
Jonanthan Holland, Visions du ReelSet in a rural area in the outskirts of Barcelona, Pau Faus’s keen-eyed, witty and compassionate second documentary Fauna... juxtaposes the life of a local goatherd and life in a nearby research laboratory to explore the tangled contemporary relationship between man, nature and science. It’s a theme which the pandemic brought very much to the fore and is handled by Faus with enjoyably light touch, gently lacerating our absurdities while keeping a compassionate eye on the fascinating and unfathomable contradictions that make us who we are.
Pau SubirósIt is a documentary film that sparks interest in the processes of science, shows the ethical contradictions that arise during research, and leaves no viewer indifferent.