Wolf Game

Runtime: 90'

Expected release: June 2026

Production stage: Pre-production

Budget: $290,000 (28% in place)

1st feature: Yes

Looking for: Co-producers, gap financing, strategic guidance, festivals

Synopsis:

Marginalized Israeli youth abandon urban life to claim biblical lands in the West Bank through shepherding, displacing Palestinian shepherds from ancestral territory. Meanwhile, across the world, young engineers build crypto-powered farming empires in the metaverse. Though seemingly distant, these parallel worlds are deeply and unexpectedly connected.

Director’s Profile:

Patricia El is a director and producer of documentary and new media works. Her work has premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and has been featured in festivals including: Sheffield, Geneva, FIPADOC, and more.

She runs The Office for Public Therapy Politics through which she has directed and produced international projects including a Public Therapy Tour across Palestine with AM Qattan Foundation and Matadero Madrid, Outside In, a playback performance with the Freedom Theatre, Parallel Utopias, at the Korean DMZ with National Geographic, In This Land with SAT (Société des arts Technologiques) NYU ITP, and the Venice Biennale College Lab.

Her virtual reality documentary film Remember this Place premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2023.

Producer’s Profile:

The Office for Public Therapy Politics is a new media creative studio & documentary production company. We have been collaborating on multidisciplinary documentary and new media projects with technology and research institutions like NYU ITP, Snap, SAT, and National Geographic, as well as local non-profit, arts, and culture organizations in Palestine through collaborative, co-creative approaches to produce a variety of audio-visual productions. We have collaborated with: AM Qattan Foundation, The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Bait Byout, and more. Our work has been exhibited across galleries, cultural institutions and film festivals including: the Media Majlis, SITE Gallery, Fabric London, Artsy, FIPADOC, Venice International Film Festival, Geneva International Film Festival, Carthage International Film Festival, and more.