Synopsis
Alexan, the last compressor diver on Mabul Island near Borneo, teaches 10-year-old Sari all the dangerous fishing techniques. “Walking Under Water” presents the Badjao tribe’s ancient traditions and collective experience as a magical narrative, spinning the urgent pressures and problems they face into a hybrid of fantasy, fiction and fact. The Badjao people once lived like fish, spending the majority of their time on the water, but with the encroachment of modern civilization that way of life has become nearly extinct. While Alexan refuses to accept that the world of his ancestors is gone, Sari is torn between his longing to be a fisherman like his uncle and the tug of the new world in the form of a nearby resort.
The filmmaker will be there to talk after the movie.
Additional screening: 28/03 – 2.30 pm – Cinema Aventure (Room 3)