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President of Iceland Speaks to Cornellians Regarding the Country’s Global Influence
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President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson spoke to Cornellians about the country’s global influence in a Thursday lecture.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/iceland/)
President of Iceland Guðni Th. Jóhannesson spoke to Cornellians about the country’s global influence in a Thursday lecture.
Grímur Hákonarson’s Icelandic film, RAMS, won’t warm you up. Set in a secluded, mountainous valley, winter rolls into the lives of Gummi and Kiddi, two sheep-rearing brothers, much as it does in Ithaca, and brings with it an ironically accessible story of death and rebirth. Despite the wind and snow, RAMS captures the warmth of our approaching spring. The film combines an understanding of humanity and nature in the lives of Gummi and Kiddi, two aging men, neighbors and antagonists. When scrapie, a brain-eating sheep disease, infects Kiddi’s herd, veterinarians demand that every sheep and ram in the valley be slaughtered.