Dogtooth

Dogtooth follows three adult children who have been completely isolated from the outside world by their overprotective, authoritarian parents, who teach them a fabricated language and invented rules about reality. The family's fragile constructed world begins to unravel when an outside woman is introduced, sparking curiosity and dangerous rebellion. The film is a deeply unsettling allegory about control, indoctrination, and the violence of absolute power.

• Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, his international breakthrough film.
• Won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes 2009.
• Inspired Lanthimos's signature cold, clinical filmmaking style.
• Actors were given minimal context about the full story.
• The film uses deliberately wrong word definitions as plot device.

• The airplane is a yellow flower.
• A zombie is a small yellow flower.
• Sea is a leather armchair.
• Excursion means a very resistant material, like floors.
• You will be ready to leave when your dogtooth falls out and a new one grows.