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FREE FISH

By Bisan OWDA, Carolina PEREIRA

Social issues - Post-Production 2025

Displaced and divided, two brothers in Gaza return to the sea — where fishing becomes their last act of survival, resistance, and hope.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Social issues, True Story, Documentary
- Countries
- PORTUGAL, PALESTINE
- Languages
- ARABIC, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 20 mn
- Director(s)
- Bisan OWDA, Carolina PEREIRA
- Writer(s)
- Bisan OWDA
- Producer(s)
- Bisan OWDA (Tellers), Carolina PEREIRA (HUMAN . DONTSKIPHUMANITY)
- Synopsis
- Free Fish is a short documentary filmed over the course of a year in Gaza, following two brothers — Abu Nagham and Ahmad — separated by war yet connected by the sea. Displaced from their home, Abu Nagham now lives in a tent in the south, fishing with his young nephew Rami, who lost his twin brother. Ahmad remains in the north, fishing amid ruins and occupation.
  
  Once a source of livelihood and freedom, the sea has become a battleground — heavily restricted, constantly watched, and always dangerous. Through intimate footage and poetic observation, the film captures the everyday courage required to cast a net, mend a line, or share a meal. Fishing becomes an act of survival, resistance, and hope.
  
  Co-directed by Bisan Owda (Peabody Award 2024) and Carolina Pereira, Free Fish offers a deeply personal and universal story of resilience in the face of erasure — a quiet tribute to a people who refuse to be forgotten.