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Following the dealings of Mauritanian fixers ferrying migrants by sea, this film shows the human cost of irregular migration in West Africa. Interrogating the role of fixers as facilitators of the voyage across the sea as well as the casualties that occur, this asks if they are very different from 16th century slave catchers.
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00:02European will give our father one umbrella and they will collect 40 human beings as a slave.
00:09European will give our father one plate and they collect 10 human beings as a slave.
00:30A slave will give us families as a slave.
00:33We will carry them to the place where we are.
00:40We now live in the lab.
00:42We don't have to do anything in our village or the village or the village or the village.
00:48We can realize something and we can do it.
00:51We can't do anything.
00:53It is not my fault, but it is not my fault.
01:06I think that's why I have a situation like that.
01:34We will be walking on the same route that Slay walked for 400 years.
01:48Let's pray.
01:50Welcome to the city.
01:54Welcome to the city.
02:00Welcome to the city.
02:02Welcome to the city.
02:04You are not gonna have to go back to the building.
02:09You are not going to take it, I'm going to get it in 350.
02:12And what would you do?
02:14No, I'm not going to take it back to the building.
02:18You will never get it to me.
02:20I'm going to get it to my captain.
02:23I'll go back to the building and I'm going to see it because of the people who are going to
02:28get to it.
02:29Because of everything.
02:30I'm here, I'm here.
02:32My dad, my dear.
02:35My dad, I'm here.
02:38I'm here.
02:40After I go to the village, I'm here.
02:42It's pretty good.
02:44I don't know how it's going to be here.
02:45I'm here.
02:47I'm here.
02:49I'm here.
02:50That's it.
02:51That's it.
02:51That's it.
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