AMONG WOLVES
Documentary Feature
52nd Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago Award
DOC LA, Best Director
FLORIDA PREMIERE
The Wolves are no ordinary biker club as revealed in this gorgeously shot, surprisingly intimate portrait of trauma and survival. Still struggling from the aftermath of the Bosnian War, this multi-ethnic club organizes charity for their small mountain town and defends the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the frontline. It’s out there, with the horses, they confront their past and reclaim that territory as a space for healing.
AMONG WOLVES is an exercise in documentary as metaphor. As stylized vérité, it replicates for the viewer the experience the director had as he was allowed ever deeper into this normally closed and tough world. Unlike many more hopeless postwar documents, it’s a rare and complicated study of how hope takes root against the odds. What is it that drives people to change themselves and the world around them, and just how much can one man do?
