WATER GET NO ENEMY
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SAIL FOR SURF
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DARK HOLLOW

Le Mégarama, Bordeaux

Monday, July 5, 2021 - 21:00

Le Mégarama, Bordeaux

Monday, July 5, 2021 - 21:00

Almo Film and Around The Waves are proud to present the film

WATER GET NO ENEMY

Monday July 5th, 2021 at 9pm at the Megarama in Bordeaux

A film on child soldiers surfers in Liberia, directed by Arthur Bourbon, written by Damien Castera, Co-Produced by Hand Studio and Almo Film

the film

WATER GET NO ENEMY

46 minutes – 2021 (France)
Trailer : https://youtu.be/FOTScyn5ia4

Directed by Arthur Bourbon and written by Damien Castera
Executive producers: Franck Corbery and Morgan le Faucheur

Co-produced by Hand Studio & Almo Film

In June 2018, professional surfers Damien Castera and Arthur Bourbon flew to Liberia, one of the poorest countries in the world.

For their film “Water Get No Enemy“ they met the first generation of surfers in the country.

Among them are former child soldiers who, 15 years after the end of the civil war, want to rebuild themselves thanks to surfing.
In the 1990s and 2000s, most street children had no choice but to join the «Demon Forces» of ex-warlord Charles Taylor.

Combatants, ammunition carriers, servants, cooks or sex slaves, they were thousands of children recruited by the various warring factions.
At a time when Ellen John-son-Sirleaf, Nobel Peace Prize winner and first woman elected president in Africa, handed over power to George Weah, former best football player in the world, what about the situation in Liberia?

Damien and Arthur went to meet war children who in some areas of the country had swapped their assault rifles for surfboards.

The idea: share these waves with the first generation of surfers in Liberia.

opening

ON EST ENSEMBLE

10 minutes – 2021 (France)

A Wasted Talent project, supported by Billabong.
Directed by Guillem Cruells.
Executive producer Alexei Obolensky.
Starring: Cherif Fall

A portrait of Cherif Fall, shot in Dakar, Senegal.

"Surfing isn’t a thing for white and blacks.

It’s everywhere.

For everyone.

If you want to do it, then do it.

Today that is what we believe in.

I would love people to help the Senegalese surfers, as we have a lot of surfers who surf really well now.

A lot of people say there are no black surfers but here there is us, me, the people you see here.

We are all ready to show our Senegalese surfing”

DARK HOLLOW

27 minutes - 2021 (Australia)
Trailer: https://youtu.be/qTLiAeK6tkU
Directed by Dion Agius & Joe G
Produced by Globe
Starring: Dion Agius, Craig Anderson & Chippa Wilson

Dark Hollow is a project inspired by Dion’s home state of Tasmania, Australia, and is dedicated to supporting the future of the Tasmanian Wilderness