'No Dogs Allowed'

Source: Schiwago Film

‘No Dogs Allowed’

EXCLUSIVE: Indiecan Entertainment has acquired North America distribution rights to Steve Bache’s feature debut No Dogs Allowed.

Indiecan is aiming for an early winter 2025 theatrical release, co-distributing the film via Dark Star Pictures and Pride Pictures in both the US and Canada. It acquired the film from Israel-based sales agent Antipode, which is also in negotiations with buyers in France.

No Dogs Allowed follows a 15-year-old boy who longs to talk to someone about his paedophilic tendencies. He befriends an older man; but when that man is arrested on suspicion of statutory rape, the boy must decide whether to testify against him and risk exposing his own secret.

The film won the main prize in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia in November 2024. It is a debut feature for German filmmaker Bache, who has previously made shorts including Supernova and Fatjona, and whose 2016 short Eye for an Eye was nominated for a Student Academy Award.

Stephan Kampf wrote the No Dogs Allowed script; producers are Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald and Felix Ruple, for Schiwago Film Production and ZDF.

Michael Repsch, Dark Star Pictures president, described the film as ”a complex story that explores the many layers of desire as well as the intricacies of relationships. While the subject matter is controversial, Dark Star believes that audiences will find the stratified humanity in the story - despite the ethical taboos on display.”

”this film is primarily an auteur work about teenage fears, shame, loneliness, rejections, and confusions,” said Elena Podolskaya, CEO, Antipode Sales International. “Director Steve Bache and screenwriter Stephan Kampf, along with the incredible performance of Carlo Krammling, managed to dive into the psychology of teenagers and depict a difficult journey from awareness of sexual urges to making the right moral choices.”

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