Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

20 FOR 20: REPLAY

Sun Dog

Belgium, Russia
2020 — 20' / Color

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Synopsis

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.

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Director Biography

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 audio-visual 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.

Director

Dorian Jespers

Producer

Gust van den Berghe

Cinematographer

Arnaud Alberola

Dorian Jespers

Editor

Omar Guzman

Sound

Thomas Becka