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Completed - GERMAN, PORTUGUESE, ENGLISH, INDONESIAN - Environmental, Social issues, Documentary - 97 minutes

Log Line

“When you shop with a conscience, you don’t save the world, you save the corporations”

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2018 (Premiere)
  • Cannes 2018 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2018

Director(s) : Werner BOOTE
Cast : Kathrin HARTMANN

Producer(s) : Markus PAUSER (E&A FILM GMBH), Erich SCHINDLECKER (E&A FILM GMBH)

Synopsis

Environmentally friendly electric cars, sustainably produced food products, fair production processes: Hurray! If everything the corporations tell us is true, we can save the world through our purchasing decisions alone! A popular and dangerous lie.
Are the “green products” of industry nothing more than a sales strategy?

In his new documentary film, Werner Boote (Plastic Planet, Everything Under Control) shows us, together with environmental expert Kathrin Hartmann, how we can protect ourselves.

They easily banter, they agree to disagree and ultimately bring freshness to a never-ending debate.

Production

Country(ies) : AUSTRIA

AUSTRIA Mar 09, 2018 FILMLADEN GMBH
FRANCE Feb 13, 2019 L'ATELIER D'IMA
GERMANY Mar 22, 2018 LITTLE DREAM PI


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Festivals and Awards

Berlin European Film Market (EFM) 2018


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