Metal waste from the seabed is a source of income for Bruno, but what he likes most is the peace he finds underwater.
In the waters off Mindelo in the Cape Verde Islands, 27-year-old Bruno Henrique Lima de Brito dives every day for scrap metal on the seabed. It’s backbreaking work, and his efforts bear little fruit, but the sea is Bruno’s happy place. Bruno contemplates his life, both underwater and above it. He hopes for a good “catch” – enough metal remains from shipwrecks and waste, carefully weighed and sold, to buy some fish for his family. Then he returns to his beloved sea, where he finds a sense of peace he can’t get on land.
Carlos Yuri Ceuninck is a Cape Verdean filmmaker. He has directed numerous short films and his second feature-length documentary, “Omi Nobu”, premiered at IDFA, Hot Docs and FESPACO, where it received the Etalon d'or for best documentary feature.
