STOLEN FISH
POLISH TITLE: STOLEN FISH. KIEDY ZABRAKNIE RYB
The first film on Gambia’s fishmeal factories, offering a unique insight into untold drivers of migration.
In the Gambia, the smallest country of mainland Africa, fish is now being powdered up by Chinese corporations and exported to Europe and China to feed animals in industrial farming. As a result, Gambians are being deprived of their primary source of protein, overfishing is depleting marine ecosystems. The film follows Abou, Mariama and Paul, three Gambians who share intimate stories of daily struggle, anger, hope and longing for their loved ones.
There’s so much to worry about in the world but "Stolen Fish" is a 30 minute microcosm of what is wrong with it, eloquently put by those who take the brunt of the destruction caused by global capitalism.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland, United Kingdom
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2020
- COLOUR:
- colour
- DIRECTING:
- Gosia Juszczak
- SCRIPT:
- Gosia Juszczak
- DOP:
- Filip Drożdż
- EDITOR:
- Adriana F. Castellanos
- PRODUCTION:
- Gosia Juszczak, Minority Rights Group International
- International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2021 (screening)
- 34th Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy, Finland, 2021 (screening)
- Festival of Migrant Film, 2021, Slovenia, (competition)
- Sheffield Doc/Fest, 2020, UK, (competition)
- Sustainable living Film Festiwal, 2020, Turkey, 2020 (competition)
- XIV International Documentary Film Festival MiradasDoc, Tenerife, 2021 (competition)
- Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)
- Cameroon International Film Festival, Cameroon, 2021 (competition)
- Livable Planet Film Festival, 2021, USA, 2021 (Jury Award)
- Millenium International Film Festival, Belgium, 2021 (competition)
- 15. Vox Feminae, 2021, Croatia, 2021 (competition)
- Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, Spain, 2021 (competition)
- Jeden svet pod Palmou, 2021, Slovakia, 2021 (competition)
- DOC EDGE International Documentary Film Festival, 2021, New Zealand, 2021 (competition)
- New Jersey International Film Festival, 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)
- Liberation DocFest Bangladesh, 2021, Bangladesh, 2021 (competition)
- Norwegian Short Film Festival, 2021, Norway, 2021 (competition)
- One Country One Film, 2021, France, 2021 (Best Documentary)
- 27th European Film Festival Palić, 2021, Serbia, 2021 (competition)
- Accra Indie FilmFest, 2021, Ghana, 2021 (competition)
- Ecofalante, 2021, Brazil, 2021 (competition)
- 25th Split Film Festival, Croatia, 2021 (Special Mention)
- FIKE – Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens de Évora, 2021, Portugal, 2021 (Honorable Mention)
- Jozi Film Festival, 2021, RPA, 2021 (Best International Documentary)
- Aqui Estamos Festival, 2021, Spain, 2021 (competition)
- International Agrofilm Festival "Agrofilm", 2021, Slovakia, 2021 (Award of the president of Agrofilm)
- Bolton International Film Festival, 2021, United Kingdom, 2021 (competition)
- 14th CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2021 (competition)
- The Pigeon International Film Festival, 2021, Iceland, 2021 (Best Directing in Documentaries)
- Imagine Science Film Festival, 2021, USA, 2021 (competition)