The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony is a documentary about a group of girls in Machar Colony, located in Pakistan, who form a gymnastics team and compete for their colony at the National Women’s Gymnastics Competition. Director Habiba Nosheen follows some of the girls from the team along with their coach, Furqan Raja, and a human rights lawyer, Tahera Hasan, as the team members prepare for the competition. This is essentially a by-the-numbers and mildly engaging documentary that's limited in scope, but nonetheless inspirational. Nosheen captures the girls' determination and hard work. It's not a fly-on-the-wall doc, but at the same time it doesn't stop to get to know the girls with much depth. Spellbound remains the best example of a documentary about a competition with children that's equally moving, well-shot, profound, captivating and even suspenseful at times. The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony doesn't manage to reach those heights, to be fair, and squanders its opportunity to generate suspense during the gymnastics competition or during moments leading up to it. At a running time of 1 hour and 33 minutes, The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony opens at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema.