Doggy Style
2026 · 22m
Directed by Ruslan Dzhanmamedov
Genres: drama, sci-fi, surrealism
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
A mysterious epidemic is turning humans into dogs, and a man beginning to show the symptoms searches desperately for his missing girlfriend as his humanity slips away.
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A body-horror epidemic that weaponizes the most intimate loss—watching someone you love literally become something else—and frames it as sci-fi rather than taking the obvious psychological route. Dzhanmamedov refuses sentimentality about the transformation; he makes the surreal grotesque and the grotesque feel inevitable.
The film sits in productive tension between New Wave sci-fi formalism and contemporary surrealist cinema, with a structuring melancholy that recalls both Tarkovsky's drift and the anxious body-morphing lineage of Cronenberg; the editing restraint around the man's deterioration is where the formal rigor lives.
The entire film hinges on a single compositional choice—keeping the protagonist in frame even as he ceases to be recognizably human—and it's that refusal to cut away or hide the transformation that turns a genre premise into something psychologically devastating on almost no budget.