Grímur Hákonarson, the Icelandic filmmaker behind potential Oscar contender “Rams,” revealed that his film is based on a true story during TheWrap’s screening series on Monday.
The film, which won the Un Certain Regard Award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, follows two brothers who are both sheep farmers in a rural Icelandic community. They have not spoken in 40 years, but rather than focus on that relationship, Hákonarson wanted to “focus on the sheep.”
“There’s no love interest in the film in the conventional sense,” Hákonarson told moderator and TheWrap’s editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles.