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STRAY

  • 2020
  • 1 HR, 13 min
  • APR 23 → MAY 6
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Released 2020, Turkey
Documentary
1 hour, 13 minutes
Magnolia Films
Turkish with English subtitles
Starring
  • Zeytin
  • Nazar
  • Kartal
Director

Elizabeth Lo

STRAY explores what it means to live as a being without status or security, following three stray dogs as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through Turkish society. Zeytin, fiercely independent, embarks on adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, finds companions in the security guards who care for her. The strays’ disparate lives intersect when they each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians with whom they share the streets. Director Elizabeth Lo’s award-winning film is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing.

Full Cast
Zeytin
Nazar
Kartal
Additional Credits
Elizabeth Lo Director

Reviews

“Filmmaker Elizabeth Lo’s new documentary STRAY follows the stray dogs roaming the streets of Istanbul-and the Syrian migrants they cross paths with.”

Nice Schager
The Daily Beast

“It’s almost like a mirage of a documentary… It’s really about the problems that the [Turkish government] doesn’t want to talk about.”

Amy Nicholson
Film Week

“Lo inspects both the fault lines and fringes of the Turkish society and ponders profound philosophical questions concerning humanity.”

Tomris Laffly
Variety

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