No Dogs Allowed

Note from director Steve Bache and screenwriter Stephan Kämpf:

“According to research by the Charité in Berlin, the first signs of a pedophilic tendency can be found as early as puberty. Every pedophile was once young, fell in love for the first time like all of us, wondered if the other person felt the same way, and played out sexual fantasies in his head.

During several years of research, we met ‘Mojo’ in an anonymous chat. A fifteen-year-old boy who told us about his fantasies, fears and confusion. A young person who doesn’t know what he really wants, what is right and what is wrong. He has desires he doesn’t want to share with anyone. Except with an older man he met on the darknet and calls ‘mentor’. And how this man, it seems, gains more and more influence over the boy.

We have talked to many pedophiles, both young people and adults. These conversations have also shown us that it is difficult to live with these feelings. But it is possible to find a way to deal with them. Even if it means a lot of self-control, therapy and sometimes loneliness. We want the audience to leave our movie with that perspective.

No Dogs Allowed is not a movie about how to become an abuser. It’s about how not to become one.”