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WILD SUMMON

By Karni ARIELI, Saul FREED

Environmental - Completed 2023

A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon in human form.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2023

Palme d'Or for Best Short Film - Nomination

Raindance 2023

Best Animation Short

BAFTA 2024

Best British Short Animation - Nomination

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024

Lab Competition Audience Award

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Environmental, Fantasy, Animation
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 15 mn
- Director(s)
- Karni ARIELI, Saul FREED
- Writer(s)
- Karni ARIELI, Saul FREED
- Cast
- Marianne FAITHFULL
- Producer(s)
- Karni ARIELI, Saul FREED, Jay WOOLLEY
- Synopsis
- A 'human' female salmon is laying on the river shore, exhausted. Her eggs have been released and are floating on the river bank: they are almost ready to hatch. One of the newborn salmons, a female, commences her perilous journey down the river and in the open sea. Once grown, she must swim back across the ocean, to return to her birth place, upriver. Whether it's in the shape of natural predators or man-made threats, many are the obstacles that get in her way. Yet, her courage, her resilience and a magical life force will guide her to the exact same spot where she was born.