When the director Craig Foster started free-diving lessons in the cold ocean waters of the Atlantic, never had he imagined the warm relationship he would build with a sea creature. Years later, he realizes that “it’s possible to have a meaningful relationship with nature [even] with a plant that you nurture in your apartment,” by virtue of an octopus that prompts us to become tracers of a wild world, but also members of an intimate, big family. A cinematic gesture of respect and freedom, a tender cosmology lesson.
My Octopus Teacher
My Octopus Teacher
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World Premiere

Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Philippa Ehrlich, James Reed
- Script: Philippa Ehrlich, James Reed
- Cinematography: Roger Horrocks
- Editing: Philippa Ehrlich, Dan Schwalm
- Sound: Barry Donnely
- Music: Kevin Smuts
- Production: Foster Brothers Film, Off the Fence
- Producers: Craig Foster
- Executive producer: Ellen Windemuth
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: South Africa, The Netherlands
- Production Year: 2020
- Duration: 89΄
- Contact: Films Transit International, info@filmstransit.com
Philippa Ehrlich
Filmography
2020 My Octopus Teacher
James Reed
Filmography
2015 Jago: A Life Underwater
2017 Rise of the Warrior Apes
2018 South Korea: Earth’s Hidden Wilderness (TV)
2020 My Octopus Teacher
2017 Rise of the Warrior Apes
2018 South Korea: Earth’s Hidden Wilderness (TV)
2020 My Octopus Teacher