- Greece
DOGTOOTH
Synopsis
A house on the edge of town, a high fence around it. Father, mother and their three adult children live here, and the children have never left the property. What they know about the world is what their parents have taught them: the aeroplanes in the sky are toys, “zombies” are small yellow flowers. Teaching, entertainment, boredom and training all follow the father’s ideas, with no influence from outside whatsoever. The only person allowed into the house is Christina, a security guard at the father’s company; he brings her in to attend to the son’s sexual needs. In “Dogtooth” (Greece 2009), Yorgos Lanthimos describes how this order begins to crack.
Lanthimos tells the story with cool precision and a comedy that grows out of unease. At Cannes, “Dogtooth” won the top prize of the Un Certain Regard section in 2009, and was later nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film was shown at Around the World in 14 Films in Berlin in 2009 on two evenings, 28 and 29 November.
Festival
Shown at the 2009 edition of Around the World in 14 Films.
