Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.
Nominated for the European Film Award 2020 for Best European Short Film
“Dorian Jespers’ stunning and unsettling Sun Dog harnesses an immersive visual language, blending watery and metallic soundscapes with liturgical music and a Tarkovskyan treatment of space and time – and signals the arrival of a distinctive new voice on the international landscape of the cinema of the real.”
“Dorian Jespers’ stunning and unsettling Sun Dog harnesses an immersive visual language, blending watery and metallic soundscapes with liturgical music and a Tarkovskyan treatment of space and time – and signals the arrival of a distinctive new voice on the international landscape of the cinema of the real.”
Dorian Jespers (1993) is a Belgian filmmaker. He studied cinematography at INSAS and directing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Gent, an education that focuses strongly on the development of a filmmaker’s personal language. This is reflected in his experimental fantasy MA film, Sun Dog. A project for which Jespers graduated with the highest distinction, received the Horlait-Dapsens prize and was offered the Wildcard by the Flemish Audiovisual Funds. The film won the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
