Of Dogs And

We’re used to seeing stray dogs in our neighbourhoods. About their living conditions, we only know what we see. Today, hundreds of thousands of stray dogs in Turkey are struggling for their lives under harsh conditions. Only few are able to survive and that is thanks to extraordinary efforts of animal lovers. It is sad that their future depends on human beings. Whatever we choose to do or not to do, that will be it for them.

On one of the dog days of summer, Jae-ha works at Samgye-tang (chicken soup) restaurant as a day laborer instead of her mother, who died of a stroke. There, through her mother’s co-workers, Jae-ha gets to know new aspects of her mother that she did not notice throughout her lifetime.

Clare's father was a producer of dog oil, a medicine extracted from dead dogs, which is supposed to cure all ailments. Her mother had a studio where ladies in need had a certain operation made. As an old lady, Clare visits her father's factory which has been shut down long ago. There Clare thinks about her childhood.

On the Moroccan coast, a man's yellow labrador is stolen while he swims. Distraught, he goes to extreme lengths to retrieve him, aided and hindered by numerous strangers in the city, all with their own agendas.

A street dog lives between debris and rubble in a clandestine dump on the side of a street. Cold and with a permanent itching, he manages to get food and cope with the constant harassment by other dogs. Vida Perra recounts her everyday life, which is interrupted when a woman tries to help her, subjecting her to a stress that would otherwise not be faced. Without detracting the good intention, will this human help be the best alternative for the animal?

Dreamlike sequences of associative and rhythmic montage disembogue into the stillness of the sleeping dogs at the end of the film.

A man lives in the forest, in the midst of a pack of dogs. He feeds them, cleans them and takes care of them as if they were his own. When, one day, one of them disappears, the man has no choice but to go out and look for it.

After his wolfdog Hailong sacrifices himself and saves his family from an explosive trap, Erlin takes Hailong's pups to the army so that they can be trained as military dogs to fight the Japanese.

Victoria is a religious fanatic who uses her charms to seduce sinners who cross her path to make them pay.

Stray Dog (野良犬) is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series.

Emilio, a gray office worker, adopts a stray dog believing that this will strengthen his position within his fiance family, but in reality it will only be the trigger of how far a human being can go in order to belong.

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Night falls in the wasteland. Esther tries to protect her son Caesar, who has been attacked by a creature of the night. But the boy disappears and Esther goes off to search for him with her hunting dogs and crossbow.

Yusuf is a driver. After a fight with the Husband, the Wife is forcing Yusuf to drive her to a place and sharing the story of a prostitute and a dog all night long.

My cheeks brush against the stones, I look out from a break in the wall.

Twelve-year-old Lily lives with her father, who has been suspended from the police force, and her stepmother. Her parents sell Lily's aging dog to Mr. Teban for dog meat. Lily convinces Mr. Teban to return her dog, and the she begins a friendship with the dog meat seller, much to the disgust of her friends and family. Mr. Teban becomes her surrogate father, and supports Lily against her abusive father and ineffectual stepmother.

The relationship between two friends, one with a family issue and decides to live alone and another one with similar problems. However, they all need to separate and follow their own ways.

A woman teaches a lesson in the passage of time in this fashion portrait by director Femke Huurdeman.

Based on the eponymous novel by Ciro Alegría. An indigenous community living their day-to-day and their relationship with nature. They can be reimagined as hungry dogs.