“Dog Days” promises to be an ambitious look at family, the challenges of adolescence,

which won this year’s main prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival’s Crossroads Co-Production

films, including “Two Brothers” and “Death Knell,” were based on books

themselves, however, built in the last century during the reign of Francisco Franco, flooded and

years many of these submerged villages have reemerged due to dropping levels of water caused

of a space expropriated long ago, which resulted in submerged villages and a rural exodus,

weaves “three interrelated elements: a campsite, a reservoir, and the ruins of an old abandoned

is about to be closed to make way for the reservoir’s expansion, an expropriation

Brothers” and “Death Knell,” “Dog Days” deals with changing family dynamics

family has been a fundamental pillar in Basque and Spanish society,” Rayo explains