Arica
A Swedish mining company exports 20,000 tonnes of toxic waste to the Chilean desert town of Arica. Thousands of people become sick, many die from cancer. Arica plunges us into the groundbreaking corporate accountability trial which begins after Lars Edman—born in Chile and raised in Boliden—exposes the scandal. Alongside his co-director William Johansson, Lars follows […]
Under Fire
This documentary depicts the unraveling of violence towards a group of coca-growing peasants (‘cocaleros’) in the North of Cauca, in the southwest of Colombia, in spite of the signing of a peace agreement in 2016. Filmed over a period of three years, the film shows how the cocaleros seek to change their illegal crops willingly […]
Boreal
Benjamín, his uncle César and Genaro are driven by their Mennonite boss to a desolate spot in the Paraguayan Chaco, where they have to build a fence. The days are long, the progress is slow. Benjamín can’t get used to the hard, dull work and the oppressive silence of this arid region. The boss finally […]
