‘Can you smell that?’ The camera goes deep into the forests of Galicia and the north of Portugal among whispers. We need to sharpen our senses to weave the signs left by wildlife. Wild, Wild tracks images and absences of Iberian wolves. The film navigates a relational history, laden with folk mythology, submission and extermination, and confronts an audiovisual history made of images-simulacrum of the natural wild. This film essay is a nature antidocumentary: it features wolves that look back at the camera, terrified, and humans that can howl. All of us creatures leave traces in this careful dance of tracked trackers.
Spain
Animala
Xiana do Teixeiro
Walkie Talkie Films
Equipo
Directed by:
Emilio Fonseca
Written by:
Xiana do Teixeiro & Emilio Fonseca
Producer:
Xiana do Teixeiro
Cinematography:
Emilio Fonseca
Edited by:
Emilio Fonseca
Production Design:
Laura Ginés Bataller
Animation:
Laura Ginés Bataller
Pepon Meneses Gutierrez
VFX:
Laura Iturralde
Music:
Ángel Faraldo
Sound Design:
Xoán Xil-López
Line producer:
Sabela Mendoza
Delegate producer:
Jaime Muguruza
Head of production:
Uxía Buciños e Nóvoa
Color correction:
Pablo Cayuela - Laboratorio Numax
Sound mixing:
David Machado - La Panificadora Estudios
Graphic Design:
Taller Torrents
Seleciones
2024
MÁLAGA FILM FESTIVAL
Biznaga de Plata, Best Documentary Award.
Official Competition Section Feature Films Documentaries
"for reconsidering the category of Wild from our climatic apocalypse, reinventing a hybrid sensibility where eye and ear become half animal half human half technical, to invite us to re-educate our capacity for wonder, tenderness and inter-species awareness"
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PLAY-DOC
Best Documentary Award
Galicia Competition
"for its capacity for suggestion, through an immersive approach with an unforgettable sound design, where the telluric, the poetic, the anthropological and the political converge fluidly, offering a film that reflects on one of the central motifs of our time and revisits the concept of the wild."
GUADALAJARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL(FICG)
Special Mention
Official Competition - Socio-Environmental Film Award
LONDON SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL
Letters from Galicia
ALCANCES. FESTIVAL DE CINE DOCUMENTAL DE CÁDIZ
Special Mention
Official Competition
OURENSE FILM FESTIVAL
Best Direction
Official Competition - Panorama Galicia
MAJORDOCS
Official Competition
CINESPAÑA TOULOUSE
Compétition documentaire
ANOTHER WAY FILM FESTIVAL - MADRID
Audience Award - Best film
Official Competition - Impacto
BARCELONA INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, L'ALTERNATIVA
National Competition
PORTO/POST/DOC
Official Competition - Cinema Falado