Top billed cast

1. 

   Zeytin

   Self - Stray Dog in Istanbul

2. 

   Nazar

   Self - Stray Dog in Istanbul

3. 

   Kartal

   Self - Stray Dog in Istanbul

4. 

   Jamil

   Self - Syrian Refugee in Istanbul

5. 

   Ali

   Self - Syrian Refugee in Istanbul

6. 

   Halil

   Self - Syrian Refugee in Istanbul

7. 

   Little Ali

   Self - Syrian Refugee in Istanbul

8. 

   Baran

   Self

9. 

   Hakim

   Self

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Reviews

A review by Harry_Gill

Written by Harry_Gill on 2026-06-24

Most dog films borrow the dog to make humans cry. Stray flips the camera to the pavement and lets the dog do the looking. Elizabeth Lo spent years on the streets of Istanbul shadowing Zeytin, a calm tan mutt, along with Nazar and a scrappy pup named Kartal, and she shoots almost everything at their eye level. You watch human ankles, cigarette butts, traffic and late-night arguments drift past the way a dog registers them: as weather, not as story.

What makes the film land is the law it quietly rests on. At the time of filming it was illegal in Turkey to kill or capture stray dogs, so Zeytin...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
Turkish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$13,140.00

Keywords

• dog
• stray dog
• istanbul, turkey
• cachorros
• cão