Edition 24: 1–9 August, 2025

Youth

Learning to fish

Ireland
2012 — 4' / Color

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Synopsis

When the summer is over, Johnny the urban seagull has to learn to catch fish. Learning to Fish is a reflection on not knowing and not caring where our food comes from. It’s a film about the loss of basic survival skills and about the desire to find those instinctive skills again.

Director Biography

Teemu Auersalo is a director, screenwriter and animator (b.1975) living and working in Ireland. His personal work include “Trolley Boy”(2009) and “Leningrad Cowboys: You’re My Heart” (2005). Teemu also teaches at the animation degree course in IADT, Dublin.

Director

Teemu Auersalo

Producer

Nicky Gogan

Cinematographer

Teemu Auersalo

Animation

Damien Byrne

Editor

Teemu Auersalo

Official Film Website

https://vimeo.com/teemuteemu

Contact

Teemu Auersalo
18 Woodfield Terrace
10, Dublin, Ireland
+353861998448
[email protected]