After my military service, I started suffering from PTSD. Since then, I decided to explore the subject of post-trauma.
In my first feature film, I explored the post-trauma of sons while my second film is about the fathers’. With "Wild Animals", I want to explore the main post-trauma of the Israeli society – the Holocaust – through the way I grew up: the children’s houses, the former kibbutz method for rearing children.
We lived like little grown-ups, out of the world. A visit to my family in Switzerland at the age of 7 burst the bubble I was living in. The discovery of a brand-new reality had a profound effect on me.
"Wild Animals" is about two teenage girls whose reality is only based on their grandfather’s post-trauma. His fears, stories and demons, have become theirs too.
I believe that a child’s mind is like a white sheet of paper: what one writes in there, is engraved forever. In Vilde Haye, I wonder if one can question what he has been told to dread since birth.