//Elizabeth Lo’s Stray Captures the Contradictions of Compassion

Elizabeth Lo’s Stray Captures the Contradictions of Compassion

Told through a series of metropolitan vignettes, documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Lo’s Stray deftly weaves together a sprawling narrative of human and canine vagabond life on Istanbul’s city streets. While the ostensible focus of the film is on three particular stray dogs—the graceful Zeytin, affable Nazar and unbearably adorable pup Kartal—Lo’s