DIRECTOR: Yorgos Lanthimos
PRODUCERS: Iraklis Mavroidis, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Yorgos Tsourgiannis
PRODUCTION CO: Boo Productions
SCREENPLAY: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thimios Bakatakis
EDITOR: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
WITH: Christos Stergioglou (Father), Michelle Valley (Mother), Angeliki Papaoulia (Older Daughter), Christos Passalis (Son), Mary Tsoni (Younger Daughter), Anna Kalatzidou (Christina)

​​FESTIVALS: Cannes

REVIEWS

 “Graceful, enigmatic, and often frightening, Dogtooth is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Un Certain Regard Prize at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, propelling Oscar winner Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers.
In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence of the outside world, a Greek couple transforms their home into a gated compound of cultural deprivation and strict rules of behavior. But children cannot remain innocent forever. When the father brings home a young woman to satisfy his son’s sexual urges, the family’s engineered ‘reality’ begins to crumble, with devastating consequences. Like the haunting, dystopic visions of Michael Haneke and Gaspar Noé, Dogtooth punctuates its compelling drama with moments of shocking violence, creating a biting social satire that is as profound as it is provocative.”

– Kino Lorber

“Blackly funny and lightly horrific, Dogtooth keeps you enthralled with the sheer brutal lunacy of the parents’ behaviour, which gradually and brilliantly tips over from the hilarious to the bizarre to the shocking to the sickening. Great stuff.”

– Matt Bochenski, Little White Lies

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Wellington     
Monday, 23 March, 6.00pm

​Wellington     
Monday, 23 March, 8.30pm

​Dunedin  
Wednesday, 01 April, 7.30pm

Queenstown  
Tuesday, 16 June, 8.00pm

Whanganui  
Monday, 13 July, 7.00pm

​Palmerston North 
Wednesday, 29 July, 6.00pm

​​Canterbury  
Monday, 17 August, 7.00pm

Auckland  
Monday, 07 September, 6.15pm

Nelson 
Wednesday, 23 September, 6.00pm

New Plymouth  
Wednesday, 11 November, 6.00pm
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