Ten Billion, What's on your Plate?Valentin Thurn
By 2050 the world population will have risen to a hallucinatory 10 billion. How will we ensure that everyone can be fed? Bestselling author and "food fighter" Valentin Thurn looks for solutions to this pressing problem.
A large amount of our food is currently produced in large-scale mass production, which puts the basis of our food sources at risk. Are there other options that are ecologically and economically justified? Valentin Thurn, who also made the controversial documentary "Taste the Waste" about food waste, travels the world in search of solutions.
He visits organic farmers, but also commercial slaughterhouses, speculators of large-scale agribusiness and local urban agriculture projects. In India, he visits a seed bank, where locals claim their crops are much more resistant to the constant flooding than the mutated plants of multinationals like Bayer and Monsanto. In Thailand, he takes a look at an insect farm and he visits various private initiatives in England, Germany and the US. Turn becomes convinced that there are only two possibilities to tackle the problems of the future: small-scale, sustainable agriculture and eating locally produced food.
The screening on the third of May will be followed by a DOCVILLE+ Session 'Betekent de Overbevolking onze ondergang?'. Entrance to this debate is free of charge.
Info
Directed by Valentin Thurn
Germany
102 min.
English, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portugese
Subtitles: English
Programme
Festival favorites*
credits
Director
Valentin Thurn
Producer
Jürgen Kleinig, Tina Leeb
Production company
Alte Celluloid Fabrik GbR
Cinematography
Hajo Schomerus
Editing
Henk Drees
Music
Dürbeck & Dohmen
Contact info
Bekijk Contact info(en screener)
(beschikbaar vanaf 20.03)