#animal #drama #adventure #Bong Joon-ho #Jon Ronson #An Seo-hyun #Byun Hee-bong #Steven Yeun #Tilda Swinton #Lily Collins #Choi Woo-shik #2017 #recorded in October, 2021

A Korean farm girl named Mija, an orphan, lives with her grandfather in a rainforest. Her constant companion is Okja, a pig with a soft pink belly and trusting eyes, which is one of the prototype pigs that the Mirando Corporation seeded the world with.

This is an international co-production of South Korea and the United States, and it stars an ensemble cast headed by Korean actors An Seo-hyun, Byun Hee-bong, and Choi Woo-shik, and Hollywood actors Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Steven Yeun, Shirley Henderson and Jake Gyllenhaal.

All the film’s many threads ultimately come back to questions of trust: what it means to keep or betray trust, whether there are circumstances where betrayal is necessary, and whether the trust between people is more meaningful than the one between human and animal.