Project NIM

"Project Nim" is practically irresistible. The story keeps getting odder and richer and more complicated."
- Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

"A very absorbing film"
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Short-listed for 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary

Equal parts hilarious, poignant, and heartbreaking, Project Nim not only tells a compelling story masterfully, but also raises the flag on the darker side of human nature.

From the team behind Oscar winner 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.

USA * 2011 * 93 minutes * Documentary * Non-Rated