Corailleur: a funny business that carries Francis as a mercenary. After plunging in most of the world's seas since the age of 14, he became a place today in the small port of Azilah, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. A nomadic life of the seas he shares with his wife and daughter. Behind its walls, Azilah - the "forgotten" in Arabic - came out of oblivion with its coral: people come from far away to buy here called "morjane". A stone-animal who is also a lucky charm, through which young people from Azilah were able to convert jewelers apprentices.
Francis and coral fishermen from Azilah are all experienced divers. They come from the entire Mediterranean basin to hunt down precious scarlet branches. These strange hunters roam the sea coast in search of any clues that might show them the way of fortune. The eye riveted on the neighbor on the sounder, or even the contents of the fishermen's net, they know detect the promise of a vein ... Every day, Francis began to water, sure he will finally discover a treasure on the ocean floor. A dream that continues since it is small. But today, the harvest is impoverished, risks and accidents multiply ...
Yet Francis and others think to outsmart the traps from the depths of the sea: they caught a fever of red gold. Only account this incessant hunting on the ocean floor, which turned their lives into a wire dotted with stops ...
Director: Malek Sahraoui and Aubin Hellot
Type: documentary company, Travel
Production: 5th Planet
Co-production: 5 continents