THE COLONEL’S STRAY DOGS
SUNDAY 19 MAY 2019
10:00 1h30
Doc Corner Screening Room
THE COLONEL’S STRAY DOGS
Category: South African Showcase
Directed by: Khalid SHAMIS
Produced by: Steven MARKOVITZ (Tubafilms, Big World Cinema)
Country of production: South Africa, UK, Libya
Original title: The colonel's stray dogs
Completed in: November 2019
Main contact: Khalid SHAMIS - khalid@tubafilms.com
For over 40 years Ashur Shamis was Colonel Gadaffi’s enemy #1. When the 2011 revolution rid the country of him, Ashur finally returned home to a hero’s welcome but as Libya slipped into civil war he was rejected by the new country and found himself exiled once again. His dream of Libya now distorted, Ashur’s son uncovers a dangerous past and questions the choices his father made to inherit the mess Gadaffi left.