Cows

COWS, the feature directing debut of Julio Medem, is a Spanish-language drama about the bitter rivalry between two families from the bucolic Basque region of northern Spain, through three generations, between the end of the last century and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.

Brutal and dreamlike, COWS combines elements of rural horror and magic realism as it weaves its tale. Written by Medem, who once worked as a film critic, the story takes place in a small, remote valley where the warring families live in side-by-side hostility. So isolated is their existence and so tantalizing the proximity of their houses that violence is practically inevitable. Over th...