The Dancing Dogs of Dombrova

This is a remarkable Canadian black comedy that leans towards the themes of the international and the familial Sarah and Aaron are related but their live paths have diverged a long time ago While still solving their personal problems they have to work together to fulfill the last wish of their Jewish grandmother who got into a concentration camp aged 15 and has miraculously survived the Holocaust They have to somehow find the remains of her favorite childhood pet a dog that could dance on her hind legs but is long dead and is buried somewhere in Poland This is a wellformed film that refuses to employ sentimentality just for show