Donkeys

Donkeys (2010)

Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.

Date of release
2010-10-08
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama
Director
Morag McKinnon

Casting

Interesting facts

Donkeys is a 2010 Scottish independent feature film, directed by Morag McKinnon and starring James Cosmo, Kate Dickie, Martin Compston, Brian Pettifer, and Natalie Press. It was awarded best feature film at the 2011 British Academy Scotland Awards, and Cosmo was named best actor.

Production and release

It was originally planned as the second part of the Advance Party trilogy inspired by Lars von Trier and the Dogme 95 movement. It followed Andrea Arnold's Red Road, and all the films in the trilogy, produced by Sigma Films and Zentropa, were supposed to feature the same characters and actors. Kate Dickie's character Jackie was the lead playing a CCTV camera-operator in Red Road and is a checkout operator in Donkeys.

However the production was difficult, due partly to the illness of original lead actor Andy Armour, who was eventually replaced by James Cosmo; Armour died of cancer a few months later.

It was premiered at the 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival and opened in October 2010 at Cineworld Renfrew Street in Glasgow.

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