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Hooked on the Azores
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Hooked on the Azores

2013 · 1 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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A Swedish team competes in the Big Game Fishing Tournament in the Azores in 2013, filmed aboard their boat Alabote under skippers Jose and Miguel Furtado, with Pauline Narvaez also on the crew. The camera stays close to the deck through the days of trolling, waiting, and hauling lines, catching the small talk and the tension that builds between bites. There are no dramatic reenactments or outside experts here, just the team's own experience of a competition that runs on patience as much as skill: hours of nothing followed by sudden bursts of adrenaline when a fish takes the hook. The film treats the tournament as a stand-in for something larger, the bond among people who choose to spend their days chasing marlin and tuna off a volcanic archipelago, betting effort and hope against odds they cannot control. It is a small, specific record of one crew's run at the tournament rather than a broad portrait of the sport.