“Dog and Wolf” shows us how our memories are stored in our bodies, ready to surface at unexpected moments. Through its raw images and patient rhythm, a sense of loss and longing and the impossible present moment are subtly presented.

Rudo is a 25-year-old stripper who has chosen to embrace a life of perpetual partying and sleep deprivation. As he navigates through the chaotic nightlife fueled by drugs and dance, memories of his ex-girlfriend Misha haunt him, reminding him of broken promises and lost connections.

Programme section: New Talents Competition
Original title: Pes a Vlk | Year: 2025 | Duration: 20′
Country: Czechia | Language: Czech | Subtitles: English
Director: Terézia Halamová | Production: Natália Pavlove – Other Stories; FAMU – Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague | Cast: Tomáš Čapek, Katerina Hulinská, Emil Rothermel, Manuel Inacker | Cinematography: Dušan Husár | Editing: Lukáš Janičík | Sound: Anna Jesenská

FESTIVALS & AWARDS (SELECTION) 

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2025 – World Premiere | Leiden Shorts, 2025 | In the Palace International Short Film Festival, 2025 | Kyiv International Short Film Festival, 2025

DIRECTOR’S BIO 

Terézia Halamová (1993) is a Slovak director who earned her MA at FAMU in Prague. Her short film “Sing for Us” (2020) premiered at Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan, won the New Europe Talent Award and Best Cinematography Award at the Zubroffka Festival, and the Jury Award at the International Kinoproba Festival. She collaborated with foreign musicians, and her music video “Move Honey” won the Jury Prize at the Polish Papaya Young Directors Competition and was featured at the Berlin Music Video Awards. With her feature debut film in development, “The Hour Between Dog and Wolf”, she was selected as a KVIFF Talent 2022 and presented the project at KVIFF. All her films are connected by the themes of loneliness, growing up, and exploring intimacy. She likes to work with non-actors and is interested in the plasticity of interpersonal relationships.

DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

Through Rudo’s character we explore the theme of loneliness, for he is a person who is so afraid of it that he finds his only solace in his profession as a stripper, where people literally pay for his company. What does it mean to be truly awake in a world that sleeps? Is it possible to find eternal life in the beauty of present moments?