The Wolf Suit is Sam Firth’s first feature. It premiered at the London Film Festival and won the Chanel BFI Filmmaker Award. It will be available on Amazon Prime in September.
It is screening at the Glasgow Film Theatre on 31st August at 8.15pm with a Q&A with Sam Firth, Flore Cosquer from the Scottish Documentary Institute and some of the cast. You can buy a ticket here.
More about the film
The Wolf Suit is a personal documentary about memory, truth, and power and the stories we tell ourselves about the past. Troubled by conflicting accounts of her parents’ break-up and the happy childhood memories of when they all lived together in Walthamstow, director Sam Firth embarks on an emotional exploration of those recollections – and by extension the notion of truth – and details the results of tapping into them. Employing a wide range of narrative and exploratory devices – from video journal entries and interviews with her parents, to dramatic reconstructions using actors and her parents as co-directors – the film explores a painful and often surprising territory. This is a film about subjectivity, trauma, family dynamics and whose story we choose to believe.
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