Film details

Synopsis

Every day, in a consultation room, the patients land; broken, sick and marked by life. In front of them, sits an invested person who tries, without false hope, to repair the bodies and the psyches. In this cramped room where the world and a suffering humanity parade, each one of them confides in a disarming authenticity. At night, when the doors of the resources are closed, street workers storm the city to extend their support to all those unfortunate people who elected the street as their home. The metropolis becomes a veritable open-air refuge where a series of unexpected encounters, places full of strangeness, scattered discussions, wandering souls and dormant bodies hidden from the eyes of passers-by as ghostly visions in the night.

Credits

Written and Directed by : Steve Patry

Photography : Steve Patry

Editing : Natalie Lamoureux

Sound Design : Marie-Pierre Grenier

Music : Bertrand Blessing

Sound recording : Nicolas Goyette / Steve Patry

Produced by : Les Films de l’autre – Steve Patry

Direction

Steve Patry

Steve Patry is a documentary director whose works have a deep social aim. His first feature, From Prisons to Prisons (2014), documents the life of different ex-cons who are trying to reintegrate society. The film received a special mention from the jury at RIDM and a Jutra Award nomination for Best Documentary. Waseskun (2016), which portrays the daily life of an alternative house for Aboriginal men, was nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. I Might Be Dead By Tomorrow (2020), which sheds light on Montreal front-line workers working hard to provide appropriate care to the most vulnerable citizens in our society, received a nomination at the Gala Québec Cinéma for Best Documentary Film. These Wild Cats is his fourth feature film.

 

Filmography

THESE WILD CATS, 77 min, Documentary, 2024
I MIGHT BE DEAD BY TOMORROW, 75 min, Documentary, 2020
WASESKUN, 81 min, Documentary, 2016
FROM PRISONS TO PRISONS, 85 min, Documentary, 2014