Kynodontas (Dogtooth)

Film Synopsis

Dir: Giorgos Lanthimos
Country: Greece
Year: 2009
Duration: 94mins
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Isolated on a rural country estate, three twenty-something youths are controlled on all levels by their oppressive parents.  Utterly shielded from the outside world, their parents' dictatorial obsessions extend even to defining the meanings of the words the youths are allowed to use, all the better to keep them safe.  But boredom, games and sexuality are all bubbling just under the surface...

This multi-award winning movie examines familial relationships, the disproportional power relationships between youth and age, the construction of fear and the role of the imagination.  Some may read the film as a dark metaphor for modern society, others may see it as a black comedy about families, but what is certain is that - with its stark realism and blank depictions of sex  - the film positions Lanthimos alongside fellow European auteurs Ulrich Seidl and Lars Von Trier.

Screens with I Am Not Someone Else

Winner Un Certain Regard Award, Cannes 2009

Winner Citizen Kane Award and Carnet Jove Jury Award Sitges 2009

Winner Montreal Festival of New Cinema 2009

Winner Bronze Horse Stockholm Film Festival 2009

Winner Critics Award Dublin International Film Festival 2010

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