Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 2015
Wild Women: Gentle Beasts
Buy Wild Women: Gentle Beasts now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Wild Women: Gentle Beasts' is a feature documentary by Swiss director Anka Schmid, released in 2015. Schmid documents the life and work of female animal tamers from four nations: Egypt, France, Germany and Russia.[http://www.cineman.ch/en/movie/2014/WildWomenGentleBeasts/ Wild Women - Gentle Beast] Cineman The world premiere was at the film festival 'Visions du Rel' in Nyon in April 2015. The international premiere was at the 'Hof International Film Festival' in October 2015.[http://www.swissfilms.ch/en/information_publications/festival_search/festivaldetails/-/id_film/2146671563 Screening info] Swissfilms
Summary
'Wild Women - Gentle Beasts' documents the life and work of five animal tamers, Namayca Bauer from France, Carmen Zander from Germany, Nadezhda and Aliya Takshantova from Russia as well as Anosa Kouta from Egypt, who, due to the political circumstances at the time of shooting was touring in Qatar. The film shows not only the women on stage performing their breath taking acts but also their life off stage where they fight for their existence in a profession that might soon be banned. All of them work in a circus and tame tigers (Zander), lions (Bauer and Kouta) and bears (Takshantova). Schmid shows the life beyond the flashy stage shows and mainly takes a close look at the harsh reality of everyday life in a circus. The camera follows them around and in a respectful manner gets very close to the animal tamers. They reveal their deep passion and love for their wild animals and their extraordinary job, as well as their desires, aspirations and fears. It shows how the women have to cross their own physical and mental limits on a daily basis and that mortal danger is an integral part of their vocation. In contrasting images of domina vs. lap cat and beauty vs. the beast the film shows how affectionate yet extremely exhausting the relationship between animals and tamers is.[http://www.wildwomen-film.com/de/projekt/synopsis/ Synopsis] Official website; [http://www.reckfilm.ch/de/filme/released/wild-women-gentle-beats/synopsis/ Synopsis] Reck Filmproduktion
Festivals and screenings
* March 2016: Thessaloniki Documentary Festival[https://web.archive.org/web/20180415175729/http://tdf.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&page=1325 'Thessaloniki Documentary Festival' program 2016]
* February 2016: Cairo International Women's Film Festival[http://www.cairowomenfilmfest.com/movie/Wild_Women/ 'Cairo International Women's Film Festival' program 2016]
* January 2016: Solothurn Film Festival[http://www.solothurnerfilmtage.ch/home/page.aspx?page_id=7598 'Solothurn Film Festival' program 2016]
* December 2015: Artdocfest Moscow[http://www.lavrdoc.ru/2015/adf05_spez.php?id=nashi 'Artdocfest' program 2015]
* November 2015: Dharamshala International Film Festival[http://diff.co.in/diff-2015-films-a-z/wild-women-gentle-beasts/ 'Dharamshala International Film Festival' program 2015]
* November 2015: Biberacher Filmfestspiele
* October 2015: Hof International Film Festival[http://hofer-filmtage.com/en/festivalfilme/wild-women-gentle-beasts/ 'Hof International Film Festival' program 2015]
* August 2015: Festival del Film Locarno[http://www.pardolive.ch/de/pardo/program/film.html?fid=821403 'Festival del Film Locarno' program 2015]
* April 2015: Visions du Rel, Nyon[https://www.visionsdureel.ch/de/film/film/show/wild-women-gentle-beasts 'Visions du Rel' program 2015]
References
Buy Wild Women: Gentle Beasts now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 2015