Stray

Released 26 MARCH

3 ANTICIPATION. Dogwoof distributing a dogumentary.

4 ENJOYMENT. An engrossing and unvarnished document of living on the margins.

4 IN RETROSPECT. A simple but effective sensory voyage that’s hard to shake.

Acelebrated director of documentary shorts, Elizabeth Lo makes a compelling leap to features with, a concise ethnographic film that’s presented from a nonhuman perspective. Filmed mostly in Istanbul between 2017 and 2019, with an occasional detour to slightly further afield, the film uses the city’s interesting and complicated history with stray dogs as a means to explore life on the peripheries of human society, free of status and security.