Space Dogs
Laika, a stray dog, was the first living being to be sent into space and thus to a certain death. A legend says that she returned to Earth as a ghost and still roams the streets of Moscow alongside her free-drifting descendants. While shooting this film, the directors little by little realised that they knew the street dogs only as part of our human world; they have never looked at humans as a part of the dogs’ world.
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Elsa Kremser Director · Levin Peter Director John Gürtler Composer
United States release November 15, 2019 · Produced in Austria, Germany · Languages German, Russian
Production
RAUMZEITFILM
Production
It Works!
Production
Austria · Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German · Russian
Release dates
Switzerland · August 9, 2019
Premiere · Locarno Film Festival
United States · November 15, 2019
Premiere · Houston Cinema Arts Festival
United States
February 16, 2020 · Premiere · Locarno Festival in Los Angeles
September 29, 2020 · Premiere · Hawaii Film Festival
October 16, 2020 · Premiere · Imagine Science Film Festival
Austria
October 24, 2019 · Premiere · Vienna International Film Festival
December 14, 2019 · Premiere · K3 Filmfestival
March 26, 2020 · Premiere · Diagonale Film Festival
October 6, 2020 · Premiere · Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
November 6, 2020 · Premiere · Vienna Science Film Festival
July 9, 2021 · Premiere · Kaleidoskop Film Festival
Azerbaijan
October 4, 2019 · Premiere · Dokubaku International Documentary Film Festival
Belarus
November 2, 2019 · Premiere · Listapad Film Festival
Belgium
October 19, 2020 · Premiere · Film Fest Gent
Brazil
October 18, 2019 · Premiere · São Paulo International Film Festival
Chile
December 1, 2019 · Premiere · FIDOCS
Colombia
October 21, 2020 · Premiere · Bogocine - Festival de Cine de Bogotá
Croatia
December 7, 2020 · Premiere · Subversive Festival
Denmark
March 18, 2020 · Premiere · CPH: DOX
Estonia
November 26, 2019 · Premiere · Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Finland
January 27, 2020 · Premiere · DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
November 1, 2020 · Premiere · Arktisen Upeeta Festival
Germany
November 13, 2019 · Premiere · Kasseler Dokfest
January 20, 2020 · Premiere · Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis
February 2, 2020 · Premiere · Stranger than Fiction Film Festival
April 15, 2020 · Premiere · Achtung Berlin Filmfestival
May 11, 2020 · Premiere · DOK.fest München
September 30, 2020 · Premiere · Dokka Film Festival Karlsruhe
April 22, 2021 · Premiere · Go East Filmfestival
Greece
May 19, 2020 · Premiere · Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
September 28, 2020 · Premiere · Athens Film Festival
Hungary
September 19, 2019 · Premiere · Jameson Cinefest International Film Festival
Iceland
September 26, 2019 · Premiere · Reykjavik International Film Festival
Italy
November 24, 2019 · Premiere · Torino Film Festival
May 6, 2020 · Premiere · Is Real Filmfestival Sardinia
June 9, 2020 · Premiere · Bolzano Film Festival
July 27, 2020 · Premiere · Ariano International Film Festival
April 15, 2021 · Premiere · Bolzano Film Festival Bozen
Japan
June 12, 2021 · Digital
Latvia
October 22, 2019 · Premiere · Riga International Film Festival
Lithuania
March 30, 2020 · Premiere · Vilnius International Film Festival
North Macedonia
August 19, 2020 · Premiere · Make Dox IFF
Norway
September 24, 2021 · Premiere · Mirage International Film Festival
Poland
September 6, 2020 · Premiere · Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Russia
December 5, 2019 · Premiere · ArtDocFest
September 14, 2020 · Premiere · Cool Connections New Austrian Film Festival
Serbia
September 4, 2020 · Premiere · Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival
Slovakia
September 30, 2020 · Premiere · Bratislava International Film Festival
Slovenia
August 27, 2020 · Premiere · Isola International Film Festival
South Korea
May 28, 2020 · Premiere · Jeonju International Film Festival
August 22, 2020 · Premiere · EBS International Documentary Festival - EIDF
Spain
November 9, 2019 · Premiere · Sevilla Film Festival
May 22, 2020 · Premiere · Docs Barcelona
Taiwan
May 2, 2021 · Premiere · Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival
Ukraine
September 25, 2020 · Premiere · Odesa International Film Festival
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