Enjoy Your Meal - How Food Changes the World

- BE NL 2010
- environmental
- investigative
- 58', 90'
Awards: Special Mention
Throughout the year a world of food is lying on our plate and changes the world. Has our food, from being both a temptation for our taste buds and a source of social gathering, degenerated to a matter of conscience?
Under what conditions is it being produced? Fish-breeding ponds polluting the environment, patches of bush being chopped down to have cattle grazing and beans also have their dark side: shortage of water in the region of origin.If we want to behave like conscious consumers we will have to clear a path through a minefield of moral choices and dilemmas.

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Slow Food Story
- IE IT 2013
- environmental
- biography
- 58', 73'
- Stefano Sardo
The Slow Food Story is the essential one-stop critical guide to the history, ideas, structure, and membership of the Slow Food movement. The concept of Slow Food is not just a practical necessity for survival but offers a glimpse of a transformative change for the better in the way we live our lives.
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The Last Catch
- DE 2012
- environmental
- investigative
- 84', 52'
- Markus CM Schmidt
Once a year schools of European bluefin tuna migrate from the Atlantic to spawning grounds in the Mediterranean. It is a well-established fact that tuna stocks now face imminent collapse. Yet they are still being fished during spawning season, interrupting the natural cycle of replenishment.
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Mussels In Love
- BE NL 2012
- environmental
- 73'
- Willemiek Kluijfhout
The ultimate film about the life and food of this popular shellfish. Much more than just a starter, their glue is also used by gynecologists to save unborn babies. Experience the full spectrum of mussels through the eyes of passionate enthusiasts. Shot on 35mm, spiced with underwater images by marine biologist Jean Painlevé.
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