New Boats

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New Boats | Lansana (Barmmy Boy) Mansaray | Sierra Leone | 2022 | 49 min

Tombo village has relied on fishing for centuries but now their livelihood is threatened by the arrival of Asian trawlers who over-fish on their shores. Sullay, the son of a master fisherman tries to carry the family tradition and resist the pull to leave the village and look for work as fish decline. Community organiser, Woodie, reunites wives with their husbands who have left.