Plot

Set in the city of Bucharest, Romania, the action is confined to a week in the life of the various characters. Alberta Watson plays the bored wife of a diplomat. Director and screenwriter Thom Fitzgerald plays a Canadian pornographer. The title is based on the fact that when the communist government forced people to move into working-class apartment complexes they had to give up their pets. The initial population of perhaps 2,000 dogs has grown over the years to the point where some estimate that 20 years later as many as 200,000 wild dogs wander the streets of the city. The Wild Dogs won the Best Canadian Feature at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival

The film debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, won four prizes including the Best Canadian Film Award and Best Director at the Atlantic Film Festival, and was nominated for four Academy of Canadian Cinema (Genie) Awards including a Best supporting Actor nomination for David Hayman as a womanizing diplomat with cancer. Director Thom Fitzgerald picked up an "Emerging Master" trophy from the Seattle International Film Festival and the film was nominated for the Best Film at the Taos Talking Film Festival. It was broadcast on The Movie Network and CHUM Networks.

Cast

(in credits order)

• Rachel Blanchard
  Rachel Blanchard
  Rachel Elise Blanchard is a Canadian actress.-Early life:Blanchard was born in Toronto, Ontario, and graduated from Havergal College in Toronto, going on to Queen's University.-Career:...
  
   as Moll
• Visinel Burcea as Sour Grapes
• Mihai Calota as Bogdan
• Geraint Wyn Davies
  Geraint Wyn Davies
  Geraint Wyn Davies is a British-Canadian-American actor.He was born on 20 April 1957 in Britain, at Swansea. He was the son of a Congregationalist preacher...
  
   as Colin
• Nelu Dinu as Dorutu (as Dinu Viorel Nelu)
• Thom Fitzgerald
  Thom Fitzgerald
  Thomas "Thom" Fitzgerald is an award winning American-Canadian film director as well live theater director.-Life:Fitzgerald was born and raised in New Rochelle, New York. His parents divorced when he was five years old. He moved with his mother and brother, Timothy Jr., to Bergenfield, New Jersey,...
  
   as Geordie
• David Hayman
  David Hayman
  David Hayman is a Scottish film and television actor and director, best known for his role as DCS Mike Walker in ITV drama Trial and Retribution. He also a prominent supporter of the SNP's call for Scottish independence....
  
   as Victor
• Simona Popescu as Varvara
• Marcel Unguriano as Radu
• Alberta Watson
  Alberta Watson
  Faith Susan Alberta Watson , known professionally as Alberta Watson, is a Canadian movie and television series actress.-Early life:...
  
   as Natalie

Awards at the 2002 Atlantic Film Festival

• Thom Fitzgerald won Atlantic Canadian Award for Best Direction
• Michael Weir won Atlantic Canadian Award for Excellence in Editing
• Hayward Parrott won Atlantic Canadian Award for Excellence in Sound Design
• Thom Fitzgerald won Canadian Award for Best Canadian Feature