Sea Relatives

Silent images of riverside landscapes; fishers going out to work tell their stories of life, anecdotes, joys and sorrows. The interweaving of all these stories assemble a puzzle in which a particular way of life is outlined, different, almost isolated, stopped in time.
Sea Relatives is a feature documentary about the artisanal fishers of the Paraná River, but it also represents a universal culture of the art of fishing, simple, austere and persistent in time, which may well resemble the universal principles of the Tao. The documentary does not only speak of the culture and way of life of the locals of the Paraná river, but both the inspiration for the search of these stories and for their subsequent selection are based on a journey along the coastal towns of different places in Latin America. This trip that made the scriptwriter and director of the film allowed her to observe that there are networks that connect large groups of people who maintain old customs and share, without knowing it, worldviews and attitudes in front of the adversities of life.
In addition, the permanent contact with the splendor of nature results in a special relationship between fishers and their environment, which the documentary tries to represent through its different narrative and compositional elements.
For all this we trust that the documentary is of particular interest not only within the coastal region where the waters of the Paraná River run, but represents something larger that can be seen and interpreted with a regional vision of Latin America from anywhere in the world.
It represents a world that fights against oblivion, to avoid becoming invisible, to not dissapear. And in this sense, facing the times that are running, the story becomes current and urgent.