Traditional 老狗 Mandarin Lǎogǒu Produced by Zhang Xianmin | Simplified 老狗 Directed by Pema Tseden Written by Pema Tseden | |
Old Dog (Chinese: 老狗) is a 2011 Tibetan feature film written and directed by Pema Tseden, and starring Yanbum Gyal, Drolma Kyab, Lochey Lochey, Tamdrin Tso. Old Dog picks up the story of a father and son against the backdrop of China's escalating trade in Tibetan mastiffs. The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 2012 Brooklyn Film Festival and Best Picture at the 12th Tokyo Future International Film Festival. The film was released in China in 2011.
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Plot
In the late 1990s, somewhere in China's Tibet Autonomous Region, a Tibetan sheep herder sells his father's prized Tibetan mastiff to a dealer without his father's permission. When his father finds out, he stopped his son from selling his dog. He raised it for 12 years and he has deep affection for his dog. And, the old man hid his dog in the mountains. But someone have sold his dog to a dealer. In order to retrieve the dog, the son was in conflict with the dog dealer, and finally he was detained by the local police.