Pigsty
Feature Docs
Run Time
72'
Year of Production
2023
Producer
Dancing Dog Productions, RTBF
Pitch
In Western Europe, each citizen consumes on average more than 40 kilos of pork per year—a staggering figure that keeps an industry with largely unseen mechanisms running. In Belgium, medium-sized farmers like the lively Daniel Minne struggle to survive in the face of large-scale operations that raise tens of thousands of pigs annually. In Landunvez, Brittany, green algae reveal the shocking pollution caused by industrial pig farms. In Denmark, a Belgian anthropologist investigates the environmental impact of excessive pig farming. Pigsty tells the story of how a 10,000-year-old relationship between humans and pigs—the farm animals closest to us—has gone off the rails on the altar of profitability.