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SYNOPSIS

Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets. Hagen and his pretty master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Struggling to survive, homeless Hagen realizes that not everyone is a dog's best friend. Hagen joins a gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound. With little hope inside there, the dogs will seize an opportunity to escape and revolt against mankind. Their revenge will be merciless. Lili may be the only one who can halt this unexpected war between man and dog.

Kornél Mundruczó

Kornél Mundruczó was born in Hungary in 1975. Pleasant Days, his first feature film, was awarded the Silver Leopard in Locarno in 2002. His second feature film Johanna, a filmic opera adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc was presented in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2005. Delta was in Competition at Cannes 2008 and was awarded the FIPRESCI prize. In 2010, Tender Son - The Frankenstein project was also presented in Cannes Competition.

Filmography
2014 Fehér Isten / White God
2010 Tender son - The Frankenstein project
2008 Delta
2005 Johanna
2002 Pleasant Days
2001 Afta - Day After Day
2000 This I Wish and Nothing More

Festivals
2014 Cannes, New Zeland

Awards
2014 Cannes - Prize Un Certain Regard, Palm Dog Award; Antalya - Golden Orange Viewer's Award

Not merely a story of interspecies hierarchy, then, White God also puts forward a simple but elegant metaphor for racial and class oppression, as the outcast (or even outcaste) masses, sidelined in favor of
the elite few, band together to assert their collective strength.
Guy Lodge, Variety