The Summer of Flying Fish
by Marcela Said
Manena is a very determined teenager, and the darling daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacations to a single obsession: the extermination of carp fish that invade his artificial lagoon.
As he resorts to more and more extreme methods, Manena experiences her first love, deception; and discovers a world that silently co-exists alongside her own: that of the Mapuche Indian workers who claim access to these lands… and who stand up to her father.
Details
Written by
Marcela Said, Julio Rojas
Original title
El Verano de los Peces Voladores
Produced by
Bruno Bettati (Jirafa films)
Tom Dercourt & Sophie Erbs (Cinema Defacto)
Featuring
Francisca Walker (Manena), Gregory Cohen (Pancho), Roberto Cayuqueo (Pedro), Guillermo Lorca (Lorca)
Festivals and Awards
- Directors’Fortnight – Cannes 2013 – World Premiere
- Muenchen Film Festival 2013 – Competition
- New Horizons – Wroclaw, Poland – Panorama Section
- Lima Film Festival – Peru – Competition
- Toronto Official Selection – Canada – Discovery
- Adana, Turkey – World Cinema
- Haifa, Israel – Competition
- Salé Women, Morocco – Competition
- Vancouver, Canada – World Cinema
- Sao Paulo, Brazil – New Filmmakers – Competition
- Arte film Week – Lebanon – Official Selection
- Biarritz, France – Competition – Critics’ Award
- Dominican Republic – Competition
- Filmar en America Latin – Switzerland – World Cinema
- L’Orquidea, Cuenca Ecuador- World Cinema – Best filmmaker
- Gijon, Spain – Competition
- Goa, India – World Cinema
- Mar Del Plata, Argentina – World Cinema
- Havana, Cuba – World Cinema- Third Award for Best First feature
- Palm Springs, USA – Competition
- Glasgow, UK – World Cinema
- Miami, USA – World Cinema
- Festival International du Film d’Amour de Mons – Belgium – World Cinema
- Panama– Competition
- ARCALT Toulouse CinéLatino – France – Opening film
- Cinema Planeta – Intl Environemental FF in Cuernavaca – Mexico- World Cinema
- Cinemateca de Catalunya – Spain
- Mostra de Catalunya Lleida – Spain
- Fundación SGAE – Spain
- CineLatino – Bergamo – Italy
- Spanish Film Festival – Australia
- River Run FF, USA – Best Director & Best Cinematography
Press quotes
“An impressive move into feature drama with the evocative and atmospheric [first feature]” Screen International, Mark Adams “a refined, politically conscious film by a female director” Variety, Peter Debruge
“A bourgeois Chilean family spend summer at their lakeside estate in this atmospheric drama… Marcela Said’s film is full of arresting images of Chilean nature [while] the story is shot through with class and racial friction…”—Hollywood Reporter
