Film Review: Hope, Despair, Courage
An award-winning film, made on a tight budget, captures in powerful images the complexities of small-scale fishers and fish processors in West Africa. I’m in search of happiness. That’s how a young Guinean surprises us in the smoky atmosphere of a sardinella smoking oven in Casamance, Senegal, in a sequence from the film Poisson d’or, poisson africain. Thomas Grand and his friend Moussa Diop show us the price to pay for trying to make a living on this bustling beach. They give us a scalpel-sharp analysis of the complex realities of a temporary community that brings together, for six months of the year, men, women and children from all over West Africa, around the exploitation of fish.
Title of publication: Samudra Report
Issue: 83
ISSN: 0976-1121
Page range: 61-63
Author: Alain Le Sann
Organization: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Year: 2020
Type: Journal article
Full text available at: https://www.icsf.net/images/samudra/pdf/english/issue_83/4436_art_Sam_83_art15_Review_Alain.pdf
Content language: English