10-03-2024

WILD URGE - A Date-Rape Drug centered drama

    Wild Urge by Sharon Bar Ziv Wild Urge by Sharon Bar Ziv

    A world Premiere! Wild Urge (81 min') is based on true events. The film tells the story of a successful lawyer suspected of drugging a young woman who claims he had sexually assaulted her.

    The lawyer is portrayed by the well-known award-winning German Bulgarian actor Samuel Finzi. He is interrogated by a female police investigator (played by Yaara Pelzig).

    The film also features Serbian-French actor and César Award nominee Radivoje Bukvic. Slovenian actress Nina Rakovec is in the role of the young woman who claims to be assaulted, and Mia Skrbinac plays the investigator’s life partner.

    The film was produced by the Slovenian production company PERFO Production and directed by the award-winning writer, director, and producer Sharon Bar-Ziv, whose first feature film, “Room 514,” won the Tribeca Best Director Award, selected to Cannes, Rotterdam, and 40 more festivals. The script was co-written by his sister, Noa Bar-Ziv, a therapist specializing in the trauma of young women. The film was shot entirely in English; the plot takes place in an unremarkable isolated farm and under the anonymity of the urban landscape - hinting at the universality of the events taking place.

    Wild Urge will be released worldwide in 2024.