After being stuck in a travel agency for over a year, the unmotivated Nadia Atebury has lost track of her destiny. Unable to envision a different life, Nadia pushes through the days in autopilot mode; until the office’s goldfish, Fernando, snaps her out of it, asking to get taken outside.
A narrow Nadia rejects Fernando’s proposal, but realizing he’s getting in the middle of her work, she accepts to take him outside for five minutes. Favor after favor, soon those five minutes become thirty, and Nadia is impatient to get back to work. However, an emotional Fernando asks Nadia to not bring him back to the office, and instead take him to a pond where he can get released. Will Nadia accept Fernando’s adventure, discovering a new version of herself, or will she return to her lifeless job, and comply with her responsibilities?
Max Mir began his filmmaking journey at the age of 8, making stop motion videos with his toys. He later started directing his own shorts, and even jumped into theatre for a while. After obtaining his BA degree at the Met Film School, Mir managed to present a short film during the Cannes Film Festival (out of competition), and has produced shorts that have been screened at Pinewood Studios London and Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles. Additionally, he has been working as an Assistant Director for Netflix and Disney+ shows. Having recently won the London 48hr Challenge, as well as Straight 8, Mir now has all his attention on distributing “Walking Fernando”, his latest film.
With the financial support of National Culture Fund.
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