The Red Turtle (French: La Tortue rouge; Japanese: レッドタートル ある島の物語, romanized: Reddo Tātoru: Aru Shima no Monogatari) is a 2016 animated fantasy drama film directed by Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit who co-wrote the film with French screenwriter Pascale Ferran.

[a] The film, which has no dialogue, tells the story of a man who becomes shipwrecked on an uninhabited island where his attempts at escape are repeatedly thwarted by a red turtle.

After a few nights he begins to hallucinate, seeing a bridge to lead him offshore and later a string quartet playing on the beach.

A third attempt ends similarly, but this time he sees the creature: a giant red hawksbill sea turtle.

In the morning, the man is surprised to find a red-haired woman lying unconscious inside the shell, which has split.

After the tsunami recedes, the young man searches for his parents and finds his mother wounded with no sign of his father.

The young man also finds his glass bottle, and the family clean up the wreckage and burn the dead bamboo.

Miyazaki told Maraval that if the studio was to ever produce a film with a foreign animator de Wit would be the one, and asked Miraval to locate him.

[9] The head of acquisitions at Wild Bunch tracked de Wit in London, where Miraval subsequently met him to discuss the possibility of producing an animated feature film.

[15] In May 2016, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the North and Latin American distribution rights for the film[16] and was released in the United States on 20 January 2017.

The Red Turtle was played in the London Film Festival on 5 October 2016 and eventually released in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal on 26 May 2017.

The site's critical consensus reads, "The Red Turtle adds to Studio Ghibli's estimable legacy with a beautifully animated effort whose deceptively simple story boasts narrative layers as richly absorbing as its lovely visuals.