Grit
In 2006, the drilling company Lapindo unleashed an unstoppable toxic mudflow into East Java, burying dozens of villages and displacing 60,000 Indonesians. The documentary focuses on the teenage years of Dian, a 16-year-old survivor who suffers the consequences of the tragedy for a decade and becomes a relentless advocate for environmental and human rights.
Understory
Understory is an extraordinary personal essay on a plant and all its cultural and economic ramifications: cacao. Traveling through Sao Tome and Principe, England and Brazil, the director walks between past and present, dismantling the schemes of European colonial oppression and investigating the possibilities of a fair exploitation of the plant. And in the various […]
Welcome to Sodom
Agbogbloshie, Accra is proven to be one of most poisonous places. It is the largest electronic waste dump in the world. About 6000 women, men and children live and work here everyday. They call it Sodom. Every year about 250.000 tons of sorted out computers, smartphones, air conditions tanks and other devices from a far […]