My Octopus Teacher

My Octopus Teacher

  #animals   #environment
World Premiere

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.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


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