This is an important documentary I've watched a few years back. I am surprised how it's so unknown and under the radar. It's an excellent documentary. It's not flashy , it's not fast and filled with stimuli. It's real, unique and intimate.
It depicts the story of fishermen in El Dakhla in Morocco. Fishermen and the fishing community. The people don't have many means as it is, since many factories have closed. But since the time of the documentary and some years before it, it became even worse. Since now they have to oblige to a stoppage of months (it think 6!) of fishing entirely. These people based their whole lives around fishing and of course a stoppage is hurting them a lot.
But where it becomes enraging, is when we see a giant ship - not far from the sight of the fishermen that are forbidden to fish - hurling fish in by the thousands and destroying the whole ecosystem that the so called stoppage is supposedly trying to protect. It's actually insane. We see these Swedish captain chilling in his cabin with his feet whilst monitoring the fancy technology to see where all the fish is. Being completely oblivious about how much men and women he's hurting. It was maddening to see this. And beautiful to witness the patience that overcame the fishermen's enragement. They had no other choice.
We get to know a woman that can't find work anymore since many of the fish factories have died, now has to beg for some fish from fishermen and sell it to support her family, even though she'd rather fish for herself. A beautiful woman, that shows me more feminism than I've seen in 200 western 'feministic 'privileged millennials combined. And the things is she probably doesn't even know the word - not that she's ignorant - no, just unlucky and underprivileged. But all the way determined and feisty. She is feminism.
We get to know a shopkeeper that sells small items to the fishermen and also is hurting because of the stoppage.
We even see Moroccans that have no choice but to work on the boat of those Swedes. It also results in some painfully funny commentaries they have. Besides the very enticing subjects they approach and talk about amongst themselves.
It's funny how many people from Europe always only see one side of the story, of the so called 'luck-seekers' from African countries etc, but they don't see how much of the opportunities of many people in '3rd world countries are taken on the daily. Even their fish , a few miles in front of the stopped fishermen! This documentary at least shows a bit of this sick injustice that goes on in the world and is never portrayed in the media in the west. And all it takes is some empathy to understand and see, and know more about the complexity of migrations.
It is also beautifully filmed in my opinion, its like the people don't even realise the camera(man) is there. It's very private and peaceful somehow. That's why I've watched it 5 times already.
This is a must see, for many reasons. People travel the world and only see what they want to see but preach open mindedness. For this you can simply sit down, let it play and enter your mind, feel and learn something.
It depicts the story of fishermen in El Dakhla in Morocco. Fishermen and the fishing community. The people don't have many means as it is, since many factories have closed. But since the time of the documentary and some years before it, it became even worse. Since now they have to oblige to a stoppage of months (it think 6!) of fishing entirely. These people based their whole lives around fishing and of course a stoppage is hurting them a lot.
But where it becomes enraging, is when we see a giant ship - not far from the sight of the fishermen that are forbidden to fish - hurling fish in by the thousands and destroying the whole ecosystem that the so called stoppage is supposedly trying to protect. It's actually insane. We see these Swedish captain chilling in his cabin with his feet whilst monitoring the fancy technology to see where all the fish is. Being completely oblivious about how much men and women he's hurting. It was maddening to see this. And beautiful to witness the patience that overcame the fishermen's enragement. They had no other choice.
We get to know a woman that can't find work anymore since many of the fish factories have died, now has to beg for some fish from fishermen and sell it to support her family, even though she'd rather fish for herself. A beautiful woman, that shows me more feminism than I've seen in 200 western 'feministic 'privileged millennials combined. And the things is she probably doesn't even know the word - not that she's ignorant - no, just unlucky and underprivileged. But all the way determined and feisty. She is feminism.
We get to know a shopkeeper that sells small items to the fishermen and also is hurting because of the stoppage.
We even see Moroccans that have no choice but to work on the boat of those Swedes. It also results in some painfully funny commentaries they have. Besides the very enticing subjects they approach and talk about amongst themselves.
It's funny how many people from Europe always only see one side of the story, of the so called 'luck-seekers' from African countries etc, but they don't see how much of the opportunities of many people in '3rd world countries are taken on the daily. Even their fish , a few miles in front of the stopped fishermen! This documentary at least shows a bit of this sick injustice that goes on in the world and is never portrayed in the media in the west. And all it takes is some empathy to understand and see, and know more about the complexity of migrations.
It is also beautifully filmed in my opinion, its like the people don't even realise the camera(man) is there. It's very private and peaceful somehow. That's why I've watched it 5 times already.
This is a must see, for many reasons. People travel the world and only see what they want to see but preach open mindedness. For this you can simply sit down, let it play and enter your mind, feel and learn something.
