UK,
2011, 93 min
Directed by:
James MarshCinematography:
Michael SimmondsComposer:
Dickon HinchliffeVOD (1)
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From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- 2012 - Best Documentary Film
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- 2011 - Best Feature Documentary
Critics Choice Awards
- 2012 - Best Documentary Feature
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- 2011 - Best Documentary
Sundance Film Festival
- 2011 - James Marsh (Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary)
- 2011 - James Marsh (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary)
Miami Film Festival
- 2011 - James Marsh (Documentary (Dox) Competition Award)