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

Sann, Alain Le (2020) 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. Samudra Report (83). ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

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 scalpelsharp 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.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM1135
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, Film, Small-scale Fisheries, West Africa, Women, Equity, Fish Processing, Fishing Communities
Subjects:	Right to Resources
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2021 07:41
Last Modified:	28 Mar 2022 18:15
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/1748

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