Summer of Dolphins
Animal Kingdom
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1h 22m
Directed by Shahar Segal • Documentary • 2007 • 82 minutes
Three dolphins that have been excluded by their pod in the coral reef are set free by their trainer. Maya, who had raised them from birth, realizes that if Lemon, Shandy and Pashosh stay in the pod, they will die.
Did you know that a dolphin dies if it falls asleep? That they have sex all the time? For an entire summer, a film crew follows the pod of dolphins and their trainers through an arduous journey fraught with frustration, pain and liberation.
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