Trillion

A woman walks across weather-beaten rocks by the sea. Barefoot in a simple white dress, her face hidden beneath a floppy hat and carrying a heavy sack, she moves with quiet, unwavering purpose through a raw, windswept landscape. Filmed in luminous black-and-white and shaped by a striking score and soundscape, Victor Kossakovsky transforms this minimalist premise into a hypnotic and deeply sensory experience. What the woman is doing there — and why — emerges only gradually, gaining emotional power as the film reaches its final moments.

For audiences drawn to slow cinema, sensory documentary and Kossakovsky’s singular way of seeing, Trillion offers something rare: a film at once stripped-back and expansive, formally spare yet unexpectedly moving. The second instalment in the director’s “empathy trilogy,” following Gunda (Antenna 2020), it continues a body of work that invites us to rethink our hierarchical relationship with other beings in a time when all sentient life faces existential threat. With actor and animal rights advocate Joaquin Phoenix as executive producer, Trillion is a quietly radical work — a film that rewards patience, heightens the senses, and lingers long after the final frame.