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LOVE DOG​​​
by Bianca Lucas

84min | Poland, Mexico, USA | 2022

After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his home town in Mississippi - where he will confront not only his own repressed trauma, but that of a society grieving dying American myths.

Year of production 2022
Length 84min
Country Poland, Mexico, USA
Shooting Format Digital
Dialogue English
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Director Bianca Lucas
Producers Bianca Lucas, Joaquín del Paso
Production Love Dogs, Cárcava Cine
Co-production Manosanta Studios, Film Exchange
Writers Bianca Lucas, John Dicks ​
Cinematographer Józefina Gocman-Dicks
Editor Omar Guzmán, Greg Karpinski
Sound Designer Thomas Becka
Executive Producer Gabriel Kermiche
Cast John Dicks, TJ Tarver, Becca Begnaud, Corinne Bordelon, Brooke Keel Bullock, Ernie Schaeffer 
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Supported by Polish Film Institute
Produced in association with: Film Exchange, Criatura Anónima, Splendor Omnia
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Festival selections
Locarno Film Festival 2022, Switzerland - World Premiere, Special Mention (First Feature Award Jury)
Sarajevo Film Festival 2022, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leeds International Film Festival 2022, UK
Bosphorus Film Festival 2022, Turkey - Best Actor Award for John Dicks
Goa International Film Festival of India 2022
Novos Cinemas - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Pontevedra 2022, Spain

Director's Statement
Love Dog is about the personal and collective process of grief, repression of trauma, and their repercussions in our everyday lives. About the breakdown of a mythicised American identity, and the universal ways in which truth, love and reckoning might break generational cycles of violence & emotional pain. It is about mourning, and learning how to live and love- not just function- in the midst of our ghosts.
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