WILDLANDS stars award-winning actor Matthias Schoenaerts (The Mustang, The Danish Girl, Rust and Bone, Bullhead) as UN bomb disposal specialist Richard Thomas. Set against the explosive aftermath of Angola’s long running civil war, Wildlands unfolds into an exhilarating and unexpectedly triumphant story of courage and hope, guided by the indelible strength and resilience of the human spirit.

On the heels of his dismissal from UN forces following a failed mission in Afghanistan, Richard Thomas, a jaded bomb disposal specialist with a penchant for recklessness, gets a final shot at redemption when he’s sent to Angola - one of the most heavily mined lands in the world. With a destructive monsoon looming, Richard is under pressure to make a remote village safe for civilians. He faces unfamiliar territory when confronted with his unexpected new team - ten spirited Angolan women, led by the fiery Paula, and their bomb-sniffing African Pouched Rats. While Richard and Paula’s contrasting approaches to life and work escalate tensions, unforeseen outside forces catapult them into increasingly perilous circumstances, inciting the pair to unite. As their relationship deepens into love, they embark on a dangerous race against time to save locals, wildlife, and themselves from certain death.

Wildlands is written by the award winning John Collee (Hotel Mumbai and Master and Commander: Far Side Of The World), and inspired by writer-director Kim Mordaunt’s (The Rocket) ten-year relationship with the bomb disposal world in Asia and Africa.