Sun Dog
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 relationship to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.
- Belgium, Russia
- 2020, 21 min
- Director: Dorian Jespers
- Director of photography: Arnaud Alberola, Dorian Jespers
- Editor: Omar Guzman
- Screenplay: Dorian Jespers
- Music: Felix Casaer
- Cast: Alexander Pronkin, Tatiana Smirnova, Andrey Sychyov, Katarzyna Wiesiołek, Lisa Fitier, Daria Orlova, Natalia Haikara
- Art Director: Zara van den Bergh
- Producer: Hilde D’haeyere
- Production: KASK
Dorian Jespers
Dorian Jespers 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 language. This approach is reflected in his experimental fantasy graduation film, Sun Dog (2020), which helped Dorian graduate with highest distinction and also earned him the Horlait-Dapsens Prize and a Wildcard by the Flemish Audiovisual Funds. The film premiered in the Tiger Short Competition at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.