Dogs Don't Wear Pants | Koirat eivät käytä housuja

Panorama

"striking but unsensationalized black comedy"

Variety
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: J-P Valkeapää
  • Finland, Latvia 2019
  • 105 minutes
  • Finnish
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

After the death of his wife in a swimming accident, Juha drifts away from the rest of the world. He approaches his job as a heart surgeon, and his family responsibilities - he is the sole parent of a now teenage daughter - with the same dispassionate distance. Then one day while looking for the coffee vending machine, he instead stumbles into a BDSM kink dungeon and encounters a dominatrix named Mona.

Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain of being.

Filmography: They Have Escaped (2014), The Visitor (2008).

The film contains disturbing scenes.


  • Director J-P Valkeapää
  • Production Aleksi Bardy, Helen Vinogradov
  • Script J-P Valkeapää, Juhana Lumme
  • Cinematography Pietari Peltola
  • Editing Mervi Junkkonen
  • Music Michal Nejtek
  • Festivals Cannes
  • Actors Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ester Geislerova, Ilona Huhta
  • Source The Yellow Affair, Helsinki