IDFA is going wild for Wildcat. The documentary from Amazon Studios screened a couple of times over the weekend at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, to resounding effect, filmm…
tell Deadline. Screenings on Friday and Sunday took place at the Pathé Tuschinski Theatre, a glorious old movie palace that rivals Mann’s Chinese in splendor.
The film centers on the charismatic Harry Turner, a young Briton who enlisted in the military at age 18 and was quickly dispatched to Afghanistan to fight as part of the international coalition led by the U.S. There, he developed mental health issues and “returned from the war a broken man,” as the IDFA program notes. “Struggling with PTSD, depression and suicidal thoughts, he travels deep into the Peruvian rainforest, where he meets the U.S. scientist Samantha.
“We became a family because of where we were… We ate together, we bathed together,” Frost recalls. “We were together all the time.”Audiences have responded to the intimacy fostered by the remarkable filming conditions – imagine the fictional Swiss Family Robinson, in a sense, but real. While we don’t see the directors on camera, the activities of Harry and Sam are documented in detail, including a growing romance between them.
Creating greater openness about discussing mental health issues is one of the goals of the directors.
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