The Summer of Flying Fish
by Marcela Said
►Synopsis
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.
Specifications
Chile/France 2013 87mn 2.39:1 5.1 Spanish 1st Feature Film
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
