Lund Fantastic Opening Night

20:00 Introduction speech
20:15 Letter to a pig (17', Israel/France, dir. Tal Kantor)
20:32 Piggy (90')

PIGGY tells the brutal coming-of-age story of Laura, the daughter of the local butcher’s from a small and old-fashioned Spanish village that won’t accept her as she is.  

Laura’s journey, filled with incessant and devastating bullying, brings us the horrors of growing up surrounded by narrow-minded, mean, insecure bullies - terrible people who need to tear down anyone who seems different, in order to scare away facing any potential pain themselves. 

PIGGY, which premiered at Sundance 2022 and is based on Pereda’s acclaimed short film, raises key universal questions around justice, family, trauma, self-love in a powerful yet subtle way and eschews easy answers.

This brave and lonely journey towards self-acceptance, forgiveness and liberation is magistrally captured by Carlota Pereda in this beautiful slasher riff which takes us back to classics such as Carrie or Texas Chainsaw Massacre but does so with its own twisted flavour.

LETTER TO A PIG - A Holocaust survivor writes, after the war, a thank-you letter to a pig that saved his life. After his testimony in a classroom, a young student dreams a tragic version of his story. Beyond her personal vision, the film also explores the themes of collective trauma, vengeance, human evil and compassion.