In this experimental short, La Fille Renne travels from fjord-wrapped inlets to the open ocean in search of whales. Shimmering visuals and dreamlike narration collide to explore how our bond with these giants has morphed from song and wonder to industrial hunting, and remind us of the urgency to bear witness.
Synopsis
In this experimental short, La Fille Renne travels from fjord-wrapped inlets to the open ocean in search of whales. Shimmering visuals and dreamlike narration collide to explore how our bond with these giants has morphed from song and wonder to industrial hunting, and remind us of the urgency to bear witness.
Director: La Fille Renne | Country: France | Year: 2025 | Running Time: 5 min | Language: French with English subtitles | Rating: 12A
Distributor: La Fille Renne
Screening Details
- Festival Screening: 14 September 2025
- Premiere: Scottish premiere
- Festival Guest: Filmmaker La Fille Renne
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About the filmmaker:
La Fille Renne is a non-binary filmmaker, photographer, and tattoo artist from Lyon. Trained in ecology and zooarchaeology, their work explores queerness and sexuality, as well as human–animal relationships in polar and northern coastal cultures threatened by climate change. Their short films, made solo and with collaborators Laure Giappiconi and Elisa Monteil, have screened at Sundance, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and London Short Film Festival. They co-founded Polysème Magazine and published Review argentique, combining analogue photography techniques with political storytelling around landscapes, identity, and non-normative bodies.