Domestic Animals has earned a Certificate of Merit for Shot Composition from the Rochester International Film Festival — one of the longest-running short film festivals in the world, established in 1959 and held at the George Eastman Museum's Dryden Theatre. Directors Sandy Siquier and Alex Mendez Giner received detailed written feedback from the volunteer jury, who praised the film's cinematography, color palette, nonverbal acting, and its haunting allegorical vision of dome