They're Just Fish

The plot

BRITISH COLUMBIA PREMIERE

Paula Iglesias & Ana Serna Spain  2019  17:00

Farming fish in the desert is all about withstanding high temperatures and constant sandstorms. It's about adapting to a new and very different environment.

Teslem (32), Dehba (33) and Jadija (30) are three women all born in the Sahrawi refugee camps in southern Algeria. They went north to study and later returned to the camps.

They now work on a fish farm in the middle of the desert. It’s a place where summer temperatures can soar to 50C, and where winter sandstorms can destroy the greenhouse that protects the fish from the cold at night.

Like the fish, the women yearn for a place that they’ve never seen. They yearn for the ocean. 

Director Biography

Ana Serna Reinares (Bilbao, 1988) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication and a Master of Research and Creation in Art. While Paula Iglesias Rodríguez (Santiago de Compostela, 1986) studied journalism and video and audio editing and post production. In 2012, they launched together with other women the cultural production company Histeria Kolektiboa and in 2015 they formed Al Borde Films. As a result of this joint work, they have created documentary short films like They´re just fish and Butterfly flapping (2018), carried out with the support of ICAA and the CreaDoc laboratory (MiradasDoc Festival), released in Zinebi 60 and awarded with the Cineclub Fas; or the feature film Manufacturing women (2018), supported by the Basque Agency for Development Cooperation and the Diputación de Gipuzkoa, released in Zinebi 60 and purchased by Eitb. Currently, they are immersed in the production and development of new documentaries.

Specifications

• Country of Production: Spain
• Language: Arab
• Themes: Refugees, Sisters, Food Production

• Age Rating General (12 and under)
• Running time 00:17:23 mins



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