Profound Desires of the Gods

Profound Desires of the Gods 1968

7.40

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

1968

Kadaisi Vivasayi

Kadaisi Vivasayi 2022

8.53

Maayandi, the only farmer in a village that has abandoned farming, is charged with a petty case that leads to his imprisonment.

2022

La Ferme des Bertrand

La Ferme des Bertrand 2024

6.50

1972 in Haute-Savoie (France) : the Bertrand's farm, with a hundred dairy cows owned by three bachelor brothers, is filmed for the first time. In 1997, they were the subject of Gilles Perret's first movie, as they let their farm to their nephew Patrick and his wife Hélène. Nowadays, 25 years later, Gilles Perret take another look at this farm, managed by Hélène who will step down. Through their words, an intimate, social and economic history of the rural world.

2024

Bittere Früchte - Ausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft

Bittere Früchte - Ausbeutung in der Landwirtschaft 2024

1

The documentary follows the trail of fruit and vegetables from the shopping cart back to various cultivation areas throughout Europe. The entire supply chain is revealed via a system that includes the inhumane exploitation of harvest workers and agricultural businesses. The aggressive pricing policy of the supermarket groups, their "lowest price promise", has established a modern form of slavery in Europe.

2024

Vellai Yaanai

Vellai Yaanai 2021

6.00

Vellai is a farmer from an economically self-sufficient village. But when he and the villagers take a bank's crop loan, they get caught in debt due to drought and low prices for crops. So few desperate farmers migrate to the city in search of a job. Can they pay off their debt? Or will they give up farming?

2021

Laabam

Laabam 2021

3.67

The president of a farmers' association wants to set up a community farming initiative and takes on a big shot, who wants to destroy his plans so that he can start a bio-diesel project on the land.

2021

Shady Chocolate

Shady Chocolate 2012

5.80

Ever since it was revealed that the chocolate industry is involved with child slavery in the Ivory Coast, the industry has been busy – due to consumer demands – explaining what exactly it does to actively fight trafficking and child labour. But does the industry live up to its own promises?In this investigative film, director Miki Mistrati tries to find out, if the chocolate industry – which is one of the largest corporations in the world – speak the truth, when they say that they provide education, medical care etc for the children of the Ivory Coast. But the project runs into trouble already from the get-go, because the embassy of the Ivory Coast won’t let Miki enter the country until he has an invitation – from the chocolate industry.

2012

El señor de la Querencia

El señor de la Querencia 2008

1.50

An evil and deranged farmer, perversely controls his land and the people who live there during the 1920s.

2008

Green Warriors

Green Warriors 2021

8.00

Martin Boudot, investigative journalist, investigates major environmental scandals around the world: river contamination, air pollution, radioactivity, illegal exploitation of resources, toxic waste...

2021