The Dog

• Baker Karim
• 106 min
• Sweden, Kenya
• 2024

Alexander Karim shines as the tough pusher MZ in an intense and gritty action drama set in the underworld of Mombasa.

MZ is hired to drive a young and beautiful escort, Kadzo, to and from her assignments. If clients show the slightest inclination to overstep their agreements, MZ does not hesitate to punish them severely. However, when MZ, despite warnings, falls for Kadzo and decides to save her from her circumstances, he quickly becomes entangled in a dramatic and uncontrollable chain of events. Drugs, sex, violence, and toxic masculinity collide in Baker Karim's (The Babajou Family GFF 2009) Kenyan neo-noir, set against the bustling street life of the coastal city of Mombasa.

- Tobias Åkesson

• Våld
• Stad
• Thriller