Documentary that follows the lives of two pirates and their community on the Somali coastline; what are the incentives of the pirates, why did they become pirates, how did they grow up in a country with political chaos, war and extreme poverty? The narrative structure is built around two interweaving story-lines; one depicting the "present", the daily lives of the pirates and their community, and the second in the "past", revealing through epic animation, the unfolding of a recent hijacking.
Direction
Dual timeline structure guts you slowly
Writing
Zero judgment, maximum discomfort
Director
Femke Wolting
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Piracy exploded after foreign trawlers illegally depleted Somali waters, destroying local fishing economies—context the West loves to forget.
Directors spent years gaining access; animated sequences were based on actual hijacking transcripts and survivor interviews.
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