Intense, heartbreaking, and persevering in the face of non-relenting hardship are a few ways to describe "Buoyancy". A 14 year old boy leaves his hardscrabble rice-farming life in rural Cambodia in search of making money, hitchhikes to Thailand where he is sold into slavery onto a fishing trawler where the threat of death is a real and constant danger with a zero chance of escape.
Buoyancy is suspenseful throughout as the tension builds, dialog is spare but the interactions between the prisoners and captain are edge of seat thrilling. As chilling as Hitchcock and dangerous as Tarantino, this film grabs you at the beginning and doesn't let go.
"“Buoyancy” is not weighed down by extraneous subplots, or even much in the way of dialogue, and is aided by Michael Latham’s nervily responsive handheld camera. The film quickly gets to the grisly meat of its story: the torture, deprivation and murder that goes on during these 22-hour workdays, with the men sustained by only a bowl of rice and the constant haranguing of the gun-toting, sadistic captain. It becomes an almost forensic procedural on the mechanics of trafficking and modern slavery, and the viewer feels the full misery of the victims’ inescapable predicament. But the physical, visceral, descriptive side of the movie is only half of Rathjen’s concern: He also wants to track the disintegration of Chakra’s very humanity, to chronicle the fall from grace that even the mildest-mannered young man can experience, as hunger, abuse and pervasive violence erode any semblance of decency or morality, let alone any solidarity between the oppressed against their oppressors."
https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/buoyancy-review-1203431073/The end of the film has this message:
The filmmakers gratefully acknowledge the many survivors of modern slavery in South East Asia who shared their stories.
An estimated 200,000 men and boys are thought to be in slavery and forced labour in the fishing industry in South East Asia.
It is an industry worth over $6 billion that supplies fish products to the world.Watch here + trailer:
https://kinonow.com/film/buoyancy/5f454c19b1a14d0001946a3b 
