Short film – fiction
Directed and written by Maël Demarcy
On the island of Pico, in the Azores, in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, young Anna and her deaf-mute father Victor can no longer survive on traditional fishing. Fish have become scarce due to tourism development and climate change. Facing an uncertain future, Anna secretly tries to sell the family land to a tourism developer without her father’s knowledge. Meanwhile, Victor, aging and increasingly mentally fragile, becomes convinced he has seen a yellowfin tuna — a giant, highly valuable fish that has disappeared from the coast for decades. A bygone past suddenly seems possible once again.
Supported in production by the SODEC.