The Summer of Flying Fish

The Summer of Flying Fish is a 2013 Chilean-French comedy-drama film directed by Marcela Said. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Starring Gregory Cohen, Francisca Walker, María Izquierdo, Roberto Cayuqueo and Bastián Bodenhöfer. Plot Manena is on vacation in the south of Chile with her father Francisco, a capitalist landowner and wildlife hunter. Francisco is obsessed with eliminating the carp fish in his aquaculture, resorting to increasingly extreme methods such as using explosives. Manena seems to be the only one who perceives the growing tension her father’s actions provoke in the local Mapuche community, who claim access to these lands. Brief Review