Barça ou Barzakh
The film explores how unequal life chances take shape in Dakar through everyday work, waiting, and imagined futures. It follows three young men whose paths intersect around fishing, education/administration, and sport, and it treats “migration” as a horizon that reorganises daily decisions. I wanted to show how dwindling fish resources, debt, informal economies, and bureaucratic gatekeeping all press on the same question: what counts as a viable way to build a life here? The film stays close to gestures, conversations, and routines, where hope, exhaustion, humour, and risk sit side by side. By keeping the camera in ports, markets, streets, and training spaces, the film maps the geographies where inequality becomes lived experience and where people rehearse possibilities without always naming them.