Stray

Turkey 2020, 72 minutes
Dir. Elizabeth Lo
In Turkish with English subtitles
Rating: [M]
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Documentary / Animal Amok, Travel

“The filmmaker’s eyes may rarely leave the dogs, but what she’s really looking at is us.”~New York Times

Aroview: A companion piece of sorts to KEDI (2016), the popular film about the stray cats of Istanbul, that this time presents the dog’s eye-view of several strays living in the same city. These benign dogs enjoy an unusual level of tolerance from the general public and some special care and attention from a group of night security workers and a band of homeless young Syrians.

NZ International Film Festival 2021