FROM THE WILD SEA

creative documentary | 78’ | 2021

FROM THE WILD SEA dives into 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.

written & directed by Robin Petré | cinematographers María Goya Barquet, Robin Petré | editor Charlotte Munch Bengtsen | sound designer Thomas Perez-Pape | producer Malene Flindt Pederser

FESTIVALS & AWARDS

Berlin International Film FestivalNominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award
Danish Film Critics Association
Nominated for the Bodil Award for Best Documentary
Global Science Film Festival
GRAND PRIX for Best Film
Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival
Best Marine Film
VIFF Vancouver Intl. Film Festival
Honourable Mention for the Impact Award
SIMA Awards
Best Sound Design

Ji.hlava Intl. Documentary Film Festival
Best Film About Nature Special Mention
Inconvenient Films Intl. Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
Special Mention for the Youth Voice Award
Sydney Film Festival
Nominated for the Sustainable Future Award
Zürich Film Festival
Nominated in the Documentary Competition
& for the Science Film Award
Sheffield DocFest
Nominated for the First Feature Award
CPH:DOX
Nominated for the POLITIKEN:DANISH:DOX AWARD
Millenium Docs Against Gravity
Nominated for the Green Warsaw Award
Doclisboa
Nominated for the Healthy Workplaces Film Award
Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück
Nominated for the Peace Award
Cinema Verité Iran Intl. Documentary Film Festival
Nominated in the Feature Competition
Reykjavik Intl. Film Festival
Sarajevo Film Festival
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
Krakow Film Festival
True/False Film Festival
Cork Film Festival
Piccolo Grande Cinema
SBIFF Santa Barbara Intl. Film Festival
Nara Intl. Film Festival
Norwegian Intl. Film Festival Haugesund
FIC Valdivia
Bergen International Film Festival
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Biografilm Festival | Intl. Celebration of Lives
Docpoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
Tulum International Film Festival
FICMEC Intl. Environmental Film Festival of the Canary Islands
FilmAmbiente Film Festival
Screening Rights Film Festival
CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival
One World Romania
Olympia International Film Festival
Northern Lights Film Festival
Ecocup Green Documentary Film Festival
Darßer NaturfilmFestival
KAFF Kara Animal Film Festival
Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival
Planet in Focus
Keď môžem pomôžem
MDFM Mostra Internacional de
V Mostra Internacional De Cinema Documental ‘Mares da Fin do Mundo’
Buster Film Festival
Noordelijk Film Festival
Bnp Paribas Krakow Green Film Festival
Cinemare Film Festival
Ecofalante
Ved Vandet Festival
Eco Documentaries
Cormorán Film Fest
Eco Trip Festival

“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

PRESS

Columbia Daily Tribune
Filmmaker steps into the ‘Wild’ to share unusual perspective

Fred Film Radio
Sydney Film Festival interview

True/False Film Festival
Q&A

Zürich Film Festival
Interview

New Scientist review
Inside the fight to save the ocean’s mammals

Business Doc Europe
Berlin Generation interview

Filmland (dk)
Tankevækkende og verdensudvidende dokumentar

Politiken (dk)
’I denne film er scenen helt nøgen’

Weekendavisen (dk)
Med sælens øjne

Århus Stiftstidende (dk)
Klimaforandringer set med dyrenes øjne