WILD CITY

ABOUT A FILM

Wild City is a creative documentary film by a multi-award winning director and cinematographer Krystian Matysek. The film follows the life of animals living in the cities and focuses on how they live within human society and their encounters and relations with the people. It is a current global view at the state of the modern world of animals close to humans and within an urban environment and perhaps a prophetic look at what will remain in one or two hundred years. The storytelling is balancing on the edge of two worlds: the human community and wildlife. The collision of two worlds and the necessity of sharing the living space between humans and animals is a field for observing the behaviour and interaction between them. How does the behaviour of animals living near human beings change? How are they perceived by the people? Can a man be willing to share his living space with its once indigenous inhabitants? And how does attitude towards urban wildlife look in different cultures?

MESSAGE OF THE FILM

The idea of the film is to raise an ecological awareness among the people living in the cities. To reflect on where we drove the animals in the modern world, what their place is and whether they still have their place on this planet. Through attracting attention and observation of how the animals deal with living in the cities, the film will try to increase peoples sensibility towards the current general existential conditions of the animals on our planet.

THEATRICAL VERSION 80”

Production:
ONES
Co-production:
TVP2 (Poland), Burabha TV (Thailand), Orka Studio
Co-finances:
Polish Film Institute
Shooting locations:
Poland, Thailand, India, Germany, Japan

SPECIAL INFORMATIONS:

Film title: Wild City
Director: Krystian Matysek
Producer: Olga Pakina
Versions: 80 min theatrical, 3×45’ (or 52’) TV Series
Film format: 4K
Project status: Development
Start of principal photography: December 2021
Delivery date: December 2022