Producers Fan Wu (Taiwan) and Venice Atienza (Philippines, also director) have released the exclusive trailer for their Generation Kplus selection Last Days at Sea. The logline reads how, in the isolated village of Karihatag, every boy grows up to become a fisherman. However, when the first rains come, 12-year-old Reyboy will leave for the city to study.
In Last Days at Sea, selected for Berlinale Generation Kplus, first-time director Venice Atienza joins Reyboy for his last summer at home. They spend the days watching the clouds change shape, and the nights looking up at the stars imagining life on Saturn. Reyboy shares the beauty he sees in the little things around him; the rocks, the crabs, the water. They talk about what it means to be home. Nothing seems to happen at the surface. But slowly, the cracks in Reyboy’s paradise start to appear. While the fishermen of Karihatag risk their lives as the yearly storms become increasingly dangerous due to climate change, Reyboy’s goodbye to the only life he has ever known becomes imminent.
CREDITS
Countries of production: Philippines, Taiwan
Year: 2021
Length: 70′
Languages: Bisaya, Tagalog
Director: Venice Atienza
Producers: Fan Wu & Venice Atienza
Produced by: Svemirko Film Productions
Co-produced by: Ninjadog Studios Inc., Svemirko Audiovisual Art Productions
Cinematography: Venice Atienza & Moshe Ladanga
Editors: Anna Magdalena Silva Schlenker & Katrin Maria Escay
Co-Producers: Moshe Ladanga & Katrin Maria Escay for Ninjadog Studios Inc
Associate Producer: Claire Labadlabad
Funded by: IDFA Bertha Fund Classic 2019, DMZ Docs, BODA Media Group
Supported by: Docs By The Sea 2018 & 2019, IDFA Project Space 2020, Visions du Réel 2020, Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum 2020
