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BLACK DOG
GOU ZHEN

• Director: Guan Hu
• CHINA / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 110’ / Mandarin; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Guan Hu, Ge Rui, Wu Bing
• Director of Photography: Gao Weizhe
• Editing: Matthieu Laclau, He Yongyi
• Music: Breton Vivian
• Cast: Eddie Peng, Tong Li-ya, Jia Zhang-ke, Zhang Yi, Zhou Yu
• Producer: Zhu Wenjiu, Jing Liang
• Production Co.: The Seventh Art
• World Sales: Playtime

2024 Cannes Un certain regard Prize, Palm Dog Grand Jury Prize
2024 Warsaw Best Film–Creme de la creme, NETPAC Best Asian-Pacific Film
2024 Valladolid Best Director, Best Cinematography

Black Dog tells the all-too-familiar story of a friendship between man and dog, but in unusual circumstances. On the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwest China, Lang returns to his hometown after being released from prison. While working for the local dog patrol to clear the town of stray dogs before the Olympic Games, he forges an unlikely bond with a black dog – a fugitive with a bounty on his head. Chinese filmmaker Guan Hu focuses on the daily lives of people outside the big cities and in more remote parts of China, asking: ’But as individual souls, what kind of strength keeps them going and helps them survive?’ Director Jia Zhangke makes a cameo appearance as Lang’s uncle.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.