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State of Dogs (1998)

State of Dogs poster
Original title
Nohoi oron
Directed by
Peter Brosens
Genre
documentary film
Country
Mongolia
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows the life of a stray dog in Mongolia. It mixes dog's perspective with human stories about life and death on the steppes.

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What happens

State of Dogs (Mongolian: Нохойн орон, alternately Nokhoin Oron) is a Mongolian movie that was released in 1998, directed and written by Peter Brosens and Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh. The film was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, the 1999 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix at the 1998 Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon, Switzerland. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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