Films in shooting or post-production
Wolves
Synopsis
During Lebanon’s corruption-induced bank crisis, depositors are denied access to their own savings, two women hatch a daring, elaborate all-night heist to get their money back and pay for a life-saving surgery. As they recruit an ex-militia fighter and truck driver into their plan, the danger escalates, forcing the women to confront the true cost of survival, justice, and sisterhood in a city on the brink.
Tony Kopec
Rami Kodeih
RT Features (Brazil)
Rodrigo Teixeira
Director’s statement
This film began with a message sent to a friend in the fall of 2019, when Lebanese banks stopped giving depositors access to their savings:
“Do I need to write a heist movie about me stealing my own money back?”
It was a fantasy born out of raw emotion. Like most Lebanese people, my life savings were stuck in a bank amid a corruption-induced economic crisis—the worst in modern history. My wife and co-writer Nora Mariana needed a surgery, which we were suddenly unable to afford due to the bank’s refusal to let us access our money. And so, that fantasy became the spark for Wolves. A subversive, entertaining heist story—and an act of faith in cinema’s power to inspire resilience. While deeply personal and cathartic for me as a filmmaker, this film gives anyone, anywhere, the thrilling wish fulfillment of ordinary people taking on a corrupt system.
Biographies
Rami Kodeih is a writer-director whose work has screened in the Director's Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes, the BFI London Film Festival, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. His most recent short film, starring Alia Shawkat, screened at more than 250 film festivals worldwide and won 150 festival awards. He has developed projects with Pablo Larraín’s Fabula and Participant Media, and is an alum of the Sundance Film Institute Labs and Berlinale Talents.
Rodrigo Teixeira is an Academy Award-nominated film producer and founder of RT Features, which since 2006 has produced internationally recognized, award-winning films such as Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name (2017), Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha (2012), Robert Eggers’s The Witch (2015) and The Lighthouse (2019), and Walter Salles’s acclaimed I’m Still Here (2024), which won the Academy Award for Best International Film in 2025.
Spring 2026
