FROM THE WILD SEA is a poetic documentary on the complex collision between human and nature. We are taken on a disturbing and fascinating journey into the emerging Anthropocene Era, seen from both the human and animal perspective. As humans attempt to rescue marine creatures, each individual animal looks back at us with inquisitive eyes. Through an intimate visual experience that follows the animals through rehabilitation, we get to see and sense the world we humans have created: Right before our eyes, an estranged and most curious place. The film paints a sensorial, touching picture of our modern world while exploring how we are all connected in an immense, nuanced system stretching far beyond the human race.

“Laying bare the ambivalent relationship between society and threatened eco-systems, the haunting imagery patiently and respectfully opens a space for deep reflection. A relentless gaze into the abyss of the Anthropocene.”
    —Berlin International Film Festival

“Deeply sensory. Robin Petré maintains a respectful distance from her subject matter avoiding anthropomorphism at all times while filming with a deeply humane perspective.”
    —Filmuforia 

“Petré does not use filters, showing the world as it is – starkly beautiful on the eve of disaster.”
    —Eye for Film

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CinemaOnline (DK)

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Filmuforia (EN)

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Eye for Film (EN)

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Movie Break (DE)

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Le Polyester (FR)

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Abus de Ciné (FR)