The Wilding (2012)

Directed by

Grant Scicluna

Genre

LGBTQ-related film

Country

Australia

Runtime

15 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teenage boy struggles with his emerging sexuality and a difficult relationship with his father. He finds himself drawn into a dangerous encounter with an older man in a secluded forest.

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What happens

The Wilding is a 2012 Australian gay drama film written and directed by Grant Scicluna and funded through Springboard, an initiative of Screen Australia. The film stars Reef Ireland, Shannon Glowacki, Luke Mullins and Frank Sweet and had its world premiere in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2012 and was nominated for the Teddy Award. The film competed at number of film festivals including Sydney Film Festival, Show Me Shorts, Melbourne Queer Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival and St Kilda Film Festival and earned good reviews before winning the prestigious Iris Prize in 2012. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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