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The Wildness

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Guérin Van de Vorst

Vincent Rottiers, Johan Libéreau, Sébastien Houbani, Salomé Richard & Simon Caudry

The Wildness tells the journey of Ben, 28 year old offender in existential crisis. The film startsas he gets out of prison were he spent three years for robbery and were he converted to Islam. Nowfree, he wants to learn to pray and to become a good mechanic. But what he wants above all isto reconnect with his son Samir. But Samir doesn’t wait for him. And Nadia, his ex-wife, doesn’thave time and doesn’t trust him. Meanwhile Mustapha, his new "guru", convinces him that he willnever find his place in this society. Mustapha exacerbates the sense of injustice that Ben feels andcompares it to the suffering experienced by the Syrian people. Ben tries to follow the rules of lifeimposed by Mustapha. Between small jobs and petty crimes, Ben will lead a fight to resist hatred,to recreate the relationship with his son, and regain his dignity as a free man.

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