With: Lilith Stangenberg (Ania), Georg Friedrich (Boris), Silke Bodenbender (Kim), Saskia Rosendahl (Jenny), Kotti Yun, Laurie Young, Joy Bai (factory girls)
Director/Screenplay: Nicolette Krebitz
Producers: Bettina Brokemper
Production co: Heimatfilm
Photography: Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor: Bettina Böhler
Music: Terranova
REVIEWS

Girl meets wolf in a startling and audacious fable from German actress-turned-director Nicolette Krebitz that is sure to provoke heated debate.  Ania (an extraordinary Lilith Stagenberg) is a 20-something office drone with a creep for a boss.  Outside the office, her only social interaction involves Skyping her uninterested sister and visiting her comatose grandfather in hospital.  One day when walking alongside a wooded area near her apartment she locks eyes with a feral grey wolf.  Without giving too much away, her encounter sparks an animalistic primitivism within her that quickly turns into an obsessive desire to hunt down and conquer the savage beast.

"A walk on the wild side in the most literal sense, Wild is a wayward, confrontational, anarchic, sexually outré, modern fairy tale that balances on a razor-sharp edge between the genuinely provocative and the totally out-there. The third feature directed by German actress Nicolette Krebitz exhibits real nerve and rigorous control in equal measure as she tells a visceral tale of a young urban woman drawn to nature in a way that will shock mere tree-huggers. This will be beyond the pale for more sedate art house regulars but should develop a following among adventurous viewers hungry for the latest transgressions, especially in the realm of sexual politics."

​— Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter
FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS*
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Palmerston North
Monday, 5 March, 6:00pm
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Whanganui
Monday, 12 March, 7:00pm

Hamilton
Monday, 26 March, 8:00pm
Nb. Change of date (rescheduled).

Auckland
Tuesday, 3 April, 6:30pm

Tauranga
Wednesday, 11 April, 6:15pm

Canterbury
Monday, 30 April, 7:30pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 9 May, 7:30pm

Wellington
Monday, 14 May, 6:15pm

Nelson
Thursday, 31 May, 6:00pm

New Plymouth
Wednesday, 13 June, 6:00pm

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