CJFF Presents : Stolen Fish

Physical Screening

Venue : River Park Church. 3818 14A st. SW. Calgary

When: November 19, 3:50 PM 

Across the planet, lives are changing as climate collapse alters the world around us. The worst impacts are being felt disproportionately by poor people who already live under precarious conditions and are now forced to adapt or relocate to survive. As a result, one person every 1.3 seconds leaves their home and their community due to climate-related impacts. 

Release Year: 2020

Runtime: 30m

Director(s): Malgorzata Juszczak

Synopsis:

In the Gambia, the smallest country of mainland Africa, fish is now being powered 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. The first film on Gambia’s fishmeal factories offering a unique insight into untold drivers of migration.

Gosia Juszczak s a Polish-born documentary director and producer based in Spain. She graduated from Andrzej Wajda Film School in Warsaw. In her work, Gosia focuses on issues of social importance, migration and borders. 

STOLEN FISH is her mid-length debut. Previously she directed a series of mini docs, such as “The Cargo Women of Melilla”, a take on a slave-like work of Moroccan women on the Southern EU border or “The Bitter Fruit of Andalucia” which sheds light on the migrant work in greenhouses supplying fruit and vegetables to the European markets. Gosia is also a journalist, translator, and public speaker. 

Former Human Rights observer in the Middle East and co-author of the book “All Quiet in the West Bank”. She’s a regular contributor to Le Monde diplomatique and major Polish and Spanish media outlets, having written about such underreported topics as the evictions of Kenya’s Sengwer community or the struggle of the Nubian minority of Kenya.