SYNOPSIS
A modern community on the cusp of change; a people intrinsically linked to nature and tradition, though their whale hunting practice is about to be challenged by the outside world.
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*BROADCASTS
Al Jazeera International (Witness) - 15th of February 2016
RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal - 11th of November 2016
*AWARDS
Sheffield Doc / Fest 2015: Best Student Film Award (United Kingdom)
IDA Awards 2015: David L. Wolper Student Award (Los Angeles)
Best Documentary Prize at CILECT 2016 (The International Association of Film and TV School)
Sehsüchte 2016 - Audience Award (Berlin, Germany)
Green Screen film festival 2017 - Best Newcomer Award (Eckernförde, Germany)
FIFE 2016 : Special mention for Best Short documentary (France, Paris)
Pêcheurs du Monde Film Festival 2016: Jury Prize (Lorient, France)
International Island Film Festival 2016: Jury Prize (Groix, France)
Trace de Vies Film Festival 2016: Jury Prize (Clermont-Ferrand, France)
BIFED 2015: Gaia Student Film Award (Turkey)
*NOMINATIONS
International Documentary Association Awards 2015 - David L. Wolper Student Award (Los Angeles)
The Grierson Awards 2016 (United Kingdom)
The Royal Television Award 2016 - Documentary category (United Kingdom)
*OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2016 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Sheffield Doc / Fest 2015 (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Le Mois du Documentaire (France) - Broadcasted in French Brittany cinema (France)
Millennium International Documentary Film in Brussels 2016 (Brussels, Belgium)
13th Göttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival 2016 (Germany)
The Golden Apricot International Film Festival 2016 (Yerevan, Armenia)
Pyongyang International Film Festival ( Pyongyang, North Korea)
The Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2017 (Bristol, UK)
The London Short Film Festival 2016 : Best Documentary Short (United Kingdom)
Tartu World Film Festival 2016 (Tartu, Estonia)
The Marda Loop Justice Film Festival 2016 (Calgary, Canada)
FIFE - The International Environmental Film Festival 2016 (France, Paris)
The Sehsüchte film festival 2016 (Babelsberg, Germany)
14th Gdańsk DocFilm Festival (Gdańsk, Poland)
5th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival 2016 (Brazil)
Pêcheurs du Monde film festival 2016 - Main competition (Lorient, France)
Rencontres Documentaires de Clermont-Ferrand 2016 (France)
Festival international du film insulaire de Groix 2016 - Main Competition (Groix, France)
DokumentART 2015 - European Film Festival for Documentaries (Germany)
Festival du Film de Douarnenez 2015 - Sélection "Grand Cru" (France)
Festival "Etonnants Voyageurs" 2016 (Saint-Malo, France)
Savonlinna International Film Festival 2016 (Savonlinna, Finland)
Elliniki Etairia: Panorama Film Festival 2016 (Plaka, Greece)
BIFED 2015 - Bozcaada International Film Festival for Ecological Documentary (Turkey)
Festival du Film de L'Ouest 2016 (Rennes, France)
Pelicam International Film Festival (Tulcea, Romania)
The International Student Film Festival in Romania 2016 (Bucharest, Romania)
Territoires en Images Film Festival 2016 (Paris Institute of Geography, France)
Terra Festival 2016 (Guadeloupe, France)
Marburg International Ethnographic Film Festival 2016 (Marburg, Germany)
Les Rencontres Hivernales du Documentaire de Grignan 2017 (Grignan, France)
The Peloponnese International Documentary Festival 2017 (Kalamata, Greece)
Bergamo Film Meeting 2017 (Milan, Italy)
Greenscreen - The International Wildlife Film Festival 2017 (Eckernförde, Germany)
Les rencontres AdHoc 2018 (Mirabel et Blacons, France)
*SHORTLISTED
Vision du Réel Film Festival 2015 (Switzerland)
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REVIEWS
“Drawing a jarring juxtaposition between the picturesque landscape and the violent and gruesome practice of whale slaughter, Benjamin Huget’s film evokes a visceral response. Huguet’s strength is in his storytelling - his unflinching eye doesn’t moralise or sensationalise.”
Daisy Fili, London Film Academy
“This portrait of the Faroe Islands, as it struggles to hang on to its traditions in the modern world, is not for the squeamish. By filming the blood drenched slaughtering of the whales, and the allocation of their parts to local families within minutes, Huguet’s immersive camerawork shows how close to nature the Faroese continue to live.
Carol Nahra - Doc on screen
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CREDIT
Directed, filmed and produced by BENJAMIN HUGUET, Sound recordist NATASHA ROPER, Editor NEIL LENTHALL, Sound designer ROB MALONE, Music Composer ANTONIO NARDI, Colorist ALEX PETERS, Associate Producer KAMILLA KRISTIANE HODOL
