Space Dogs

by Elsa Kremser, Levin Peter
  • 2019 IT Works medien GmbH | RAUMZEITFILM
  • 2018 RAUMZEITFILM Produktion OG
  • 2019 IT Works medien GmbH | RAUMZEITFILM
  • 2019 IT Works medien GmbH | RAUMZEITFILM
  • 2019 IT Works medien GmbH | RAUMZEITFILM
  • 2019 IT Works medien GmbH | RAUMZEITFILM

    Synopsis

    SPACE DOGS embarks on a quest after the street dog Laika who was the first living being sent into space, where she burned out. A legend says that today her ghost is wandering through the Russian capital. The hybrid-documentary SPACE DOGS takes this myth as its starting point and proceeds by following Laika’s traces. They lead into the story of Soviet space travels and street dogs that live in today’s Moscow. This film is a magical journey across our earthly borders and tells a so far unknown story of Moscow stray dogs – from ascent into space to the life on the surface of the earth.

    Festivals

    2019
    72 Locarno Film Festival
    CineFest Miskolci Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál
    RIFF - Reykjavík International Film Festivall
    DokuBaku International Documentary Film Festival
    WIENER FILMPREIS for Best Austrian Film & Erste Bank MehrWERT-FILMPREIS - Viennale
    36 Dokfest Kassel
    62 DOK Leipzig
    16 Festival de Sevilla
    Houston Cinema Arts Society Film Festival
    Mostra Internacional de Cinema / São Paulo International Film Festival
    Torino Film Festival
    2020
    CPH:DOX
    35 DOK.fest Munich - Best of Fests
    2021
    shortlisted for LOLA2021 — Deutscher Filmpreis Dokumentarfilm #lola21
    Cinemateca de Bogotá, Colombia
    2022
    nominated for Austrian Film Award