- Slovakia
MY DOG KILLER
Synopsis
A village on the Slovak-Moravian border. Marek is eighteen and lives with his father; his dog Killer is his only real friend. Neglected by his family, he has fallen in with the local skinheads. Then his mother and his little half-brother reappear, whose father is Roma – and Marek faces a choice: either the violence he has learned breaks out of him, or he finds the compassion he is so afraid of. “My Dog Killer” (Môj pes Killer) by Mira Fornay, Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2013.
Fornay tells the drama of a single day, spare and without explanations, in long takes that never let Marek out of their sight. At its premiere in Rotterdam in 2013, the film received one of the three equally ranked Hivos Tiger Awards. “My Dog Killer” was shown at Around the World in 14 Films in Berlin in 2013.
Festival
Shown at the 2013 edition of Around the World in 14 Films.
