A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.
When eight sailors onboard their fishing trawler find a mysterious girl mid-sea, ill fortune falls upon the boat as they don't catch any fish the next few days. The fishermen try to make it back home, although the sea has other plans for them.
The stooges are three fish peddlers who decide to cut out the middleman by catching their own fish. They trade their car and $300 for a "new" boat which turns out to be a piece of junk that soon falls apart and sinks in the middle of the ocean. Luckily the boys also have a row boat which they climb into and then try to signal some passing planes for help. Unfortunately, their paint spattered rag is mistaken for a Japanese flag and they are bombed from the sky.
Film director Branko Belan follows the journey of fishermen as they set out to catch tuna around the Velebit Channel.
In the Tigullio region near Gênes this shortdocumentary shows the funeral of a local fisherman.
고기 잡으러 바다에 나간 배들이 돌아오지 않아 과부들만이 가득한 섬, 해순이도 과부가 된 채 시어머니와 둘이 살고 있다. 아낙네들이 갯펄에 나가 조개, 소라, 미역을 따며 생활을 이어가는 것과 마찬가지로 그녀도 갯펄에 나가 묵묵히 일하며 남편이 없는 쓸쓸함을 달랜다. 너무 고되게 일한 탓인지 해순은 바닷가에서 잠이 들고 이 사이에 성구에게 강간당한다. 마을에 소문이 나기 시작하자 해순은 성구를 따라 산 속으로 들어간다. 그러나 성구도 징용에 끌려가고 다시 혼자 남게 되자 해순은 갯마을로 돌아온다. 어디에서도 희망을 찾지 못한 해순은 미쳐서 날마다 바다가 보이는 곳에서 남편을 기다린다.
A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to Leo, a young 21-year-old sailor who revisits his relationship with Jimena after his great-aunt reminds him of his favorite myth from when he was a child: the story of the nereids.
St. Ives and the painters based in the town, and the surrounding areas, are showcased in this fascinating documentary.
In the summer of 2000, federal fishery officers appeared to wage war on the Mi'gmaq fishermen of Burnt Church, New Brunswick. Why would officials of the Canadian government attack citizens for exercising rights that had been affirmed by the highest court in the land? Alanis Obomsawin casts her nets into history to provide a context for the events on Miramichi Bay.
Every December to January, almost a hundred squid fishing boats from Ch'ien-chen Fishing Harbor in Kaohsiung will sail from East 120 to West 60 to work at Falkland Islands in the South West Atlantic. The sailing takes 35-40 days and crew members named it "waterway." January 1st, 2015, a 65 meter long, 11 meter wide fishing boat began its journey to Falkland island. This is a documentary about 60 crew members from south-east Asia to work far away from Taiwan.
Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.
A profile of the more than 2,000 Belgian refugees in the fishing port of Brixham.
In the 1970's, filmmakers Tom Burger, Bill McKiggan and Chuck Lapp began documenting the history and current struggles of inshore fishermen in Atlantic Canada to form a union. Until 1979 it was illegal for fishermen to form a union in Nova Scotia. The committed funding from the National Film Board was withdrawn for this film, however the filmmakers continued to edit the film by entering the NFB at night. The CBC refused to broadcast the film, but it was finally released in 1990 and broadcast nationally that year on Vision TV.
Arthur and Ernest are two bachelor fishermen who occupy the proverbial end-of-the-road on Morris Island, an Acadian community in southern Nova Scotia. Sober or not, they carry on with and for the filmmaker who is attempting to find out about their lives. The resulting encounters owe a smuch to Harold Pinter or Samuel beckett is they do to the documentary genre of film-making.
A father-and-son fishing duo find a briefcase of criminal money in a river and are chased by both the police and the criminals.
Sail away to a bygone Cornwall in this wistful coastal travelogue.