🐾Lang (Eddie Peng), a former actor recently released from prison, returns to his hometown in northwestern China, but the area is being evacuated to make way for a massive industrial complex and factories. Most of the residents have already moved out, and stray dogs have overrun the city; Lang joins the dog catchers to help round up the feral dogs. This is how he comes into contact with a black mixed-breed dog, for which a bounty has even been placed. The two lonely, outcast souls—the black dog and Lang—slowly find each other, and a bond of friendship forms between them in the embrace of the desolate Gobi Desert.

🐾The new film by Chinese director Hu Guan (The Cow) won the Grand Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival; since then, it has been recognized in Warsaw, Valladolid, and Jerusalem, among other places, and was most recently nominated for a Gotham Award in the Best Director category. *Black Dog* is not only a heartwarming and surprisingly humorous film about dogs, but also a multi-layered sociological study of the consequences of the brutal wave of industrialization in the 2000s and the heightened anticipation surrounding the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The film stars Eddie Peng as a tough prison inmate, alongside Xin, the black mixed-breed dog, who delivers a spectacular performance as the title character: when necessary, he pretends to be sick; at other times, he jumps through a window and steps down onto two legs from the sidecar of a speeding motorcycle.

SCREENING TIME:

Wednesday, October 14, 4:30 p.m.

Ticket price: 2,500 Ft

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