Rams

Rams (2020) is an Australian drama-comedy directed by Jeremy Sims — watch it online on iFILM. Sam Neill and Michael Caton play Colin and Les, estranged farmer brothers who live on neighbouring properties in remote Western Australia and haven't spoken to each other in four decades.

Their family has bred prize rams for generations. When Les's top animal is diagnosed with a rare, lethal disease, authorities order every sheep in the valley destroyed. That edict is the only thing with enough force to put the two men in the same room. Miranda Richardson plays the government vet caught between the regulation and the reality on the ground.

The film earns its comedy from stubborn silence and earns its emotion from what that silence has cost both men. The wide, dry landscape makes the human stubbornness look both absurd and genuinely moving. Stream Rams (2020) on iFILM.