"An unflinching look at a provocative public dissection of a ‘surplus’ zoo lion"
"For two decades, Odense Zoo in Denmark has been performing public dissections of animals that they have put down to control certain populations and prevent inbreeding. In the short documentary In a Lion (2018), the Polish director Karol Lindholm captures the zoo’s educational event, called ‘Animals Inside Out’, without sparing the viewer the graphic details. Throughout, the adults and many children observing seem to look on with a combination of fascination, horror and disgust, as the cheerful zoo employees reveal ever more layers of the animal’s innards. While the film’s end titles reveal that Lindholm sees the display as inhumane, his portrait can also be read as something of a provocation to audiences who would much rather not see an animal dissection, even when animal exploitation is often an unspoken undercurrent in their everyday lives."
Text source: aeon.co since magazine
Director: Karol Lindholm
Producer: Studio Munka
Website: Slamdance
SELECTED
2021 Short Film Biennale Vicenza
2020 Slamdance
2020 Vilnius International Short Film Festival
2019 Ânûû-rû Âboro New Caledonia
2019 International Short FF Berlin
2019 European Film Forum Scanorama
2019 Tampere Film Festival
2019 Guanajuato International Film Festival
2019 Documentarist Instanbul Documentary Days
2019 FIKE Évora International Short-Film Festival
2019 Europe on Screen Indonesia
2019 CinemaAmbiente
2019 FEST – New Directors / New Films Festival
2019 Lago Film Fest
2019 dokumentART
2019 Filmets Badalona Film Festival
2019 Soria International Film Festival
2019 Triennale Milano
2019 Rooftop Films
2019 Mecal Barcelona International Short and Animation Festival
2019 Inconvenient Films IDHRFF
FESTIVALS
Best Documentary Short Film
Best International Short Film Award
Best Environmental Film
Special Mention
