The film details the lives of the Palestinian fishing community in the Gaza Strip, their daily suffering; facing attacks from the Israeli navy while they try to fish to make ends meet for their families.
The film tells the story, through interviews which were conducted at Gaza port during the spring of 2022 and up to early October 2014, of a number of Palestinian fishermen who either lost loved ones or ended up disabled by the Israeli navy fire or arrested for no reason in a very humiliating way.
It also tells the story of Madleen, one of the few Palestinian fisher women in the Gaza Strip.
The film was about to be premiered at the YMCA in Gaza on 07 October 2023!
However, with the Israeli vicious and murderous onslaught, additions were made to the film to show the forceful evacuation of the fishing community from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip and the suffering of the Palestinian people in general under the Israeli genocidal attack.
The name "Shanshula" is a type of fishing net in the slang of local Palestinian fishermen.
The film is 36 minutes long. It was produced in cooperation between Sheffield Palestine solidarity campaign and a local media organisation which provides training for youngsters on journalism, called the Palestinian Vanguard Station; which was bombed and destroyed by Israeli F16's in Khan Younis in Jan 2024.
About Musheir El Farra:
Political activist, writer, public speaker and film maker. Originally from Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, Palestine
Author of "Gaza, When the sky rained White Fire" and other books in Arabic.
Chair of Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Co coordinator for Sheffield PSC's children projects in the Gaza Strip since 1995.
Founder and coordinator for "Sheffield Gaza Relief Fund"
