Short Ending: The eldest daughter knocks out her canine – “dogtooth” – and hides in the father’s car. The family searches for her in vain. The film ends with a closeup of the car trunk, unclear as to whether the eldest has escaped, will escape, or has died in the trunk.Click to see full answer. Hereof, what is dogtooth? A controlling, manipulative father (Christos Stergioglou) locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound. The children are bored to tears in spite of distractions like Christina (Anna Kalaitzidou), an employee of their father’s who makes regular visits to sexually service the son (Hristos Passalis). Increasingly curious about the outside world, the older daughter (Aggeliki Papoulia) hatches a plan to escape. Furthermore, what language is dogtooth in? Greek In this way, why is dogtooth called dogtooth? The actual term houndstooth for the pattern is not recorded before 1936. The patterns were a reference to Christian Dior’s signature tweed suits.What was dogtooth shot on?The movie Kynodontas, released in 2009 and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, was shot on film using Moviecam Compact MK2 Camera and Optica Elite Lenses with Thimios Bakatakis as cinematographer and editing by Yorgos Mavropsaridis.