Synopsis

A bunch of witty kids venture into the deep end of 21st century entertainment. Inspired by news images, TV shows and internet video clips they plot to behead Timmy, their pet dog. A surefire recipe for youtube fame.

Beheading of a Smiling Dog is a satire about juvenile curiosity getting entangled with media and the entertainment industry.

"I love the way kids talk. Their language is full of references, they chew on words they barely understand, they trade filthy expressions in a shady corner of the school yard and they happily dilute profound thoughts with stupid remarks. Beheading of a Smiling Dog is a film about language. About the ways words and images are utilised and often enough misused in media and politics and how children revamp them for their own purposes." Georg Lendorff