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The demand for the latest electronic accessories in Europe is exploding. Manufacturers regularly report record sales. Mobile phones, LCD TVs, notebooks and the likes become useless and “out” relatively soon after their release. Hundreds of thousands of these end up in Ghana where children and adolescents dismantle them in toxic smoke. A “clean” business for some, a poisoness routine for others.
Documentary | HD-Cam | 16:9 | Stereo 5.1 | 90 min.
Launch project website
Launch Trailer
Awards
Innsbruck Nature Festival Grand Prize for the best environmental documentary
Innsbruck Nature Festival Swarovski Optik Special Award for best Cinematography
International Green Film Festival Grand Prix, Audience Award
11th Cinema Planeta – Environmental Film Festival Premio Juvenil Award
Festival Millenium: Objektiv d’Or
This Human World: Youth Jury Award
14. Zurich Film Festival: Special Mention
14. Zurich Film Festival: Ecumenical Film Award
Saratov Film Festival: Winner of the Audience Award
Valletta Film Festival: Best Cinematography Award of the documentary competition
Filmfest München: Honorary Mention One Future Price
Festivals
Cine y Derechos Humanos (Barcelona, Spain | November 15 – 23 2019)
Yilan Green Film Festival (Taiwan | October 2019)
Another Way (Madrid, Spain | October 24 – 27 2019)
13th Ânûû-Rû Âboro Documentary Festival (New Caledonia, France | October 18 – 26 2019)
Naturfilmfestival (Neustrelitz, Germany | October 10 – 13 2019)
One World Slovakia (Bratislava, Slovakia | October 09 – 13 2019)
UK Green Film Festival (England | October/November 2019)
Dolomitale Filmfestival (Val Gardena, Italy | September 18 – 22, 2019)
Fair Festival Königswald (Mömlingen, Germany | September 2019)
Green Film Festival (Krakow, Poland | August 18 – 25 2019)
Green Montenegro Film Fest (Zablak, Montenegro | August 03 – 06 2019)
Design Film Festival (Kuldiga, Latvia | August 02 – 03 2019)
26th European Film Festival (Palic, Serbia | July 20 – 26 2019)
Digital Festival (Nuremberg, Germany | July 12 – 22 2019)
7. Flimmergarten (Leipzig, Germany | July 04 – 07 2019)
Silbersalz Science & Media Festival (Halle, Germany | June 20 – 23 2019)
8th Pelicam Film Festival (Tulcea, Hungary | June 20 – 23 2019)
4th Kolorádó Fesztivál (Nagykovácsi, Hungary | June 19 – 22 2019)
15th Kino Otok (Izola – Ljubljana, Slovenia | June 05 – 09 2019)
10th Underhill Fest International Film Festival (Podgorica, Montenegro | June 02 – 09 2019)
8° Mostra Ecofalante de Cinema Ambiental (Sao Paulo, Brasil | May 30 – June 12 2019)
Cinema Parallels Film Festival (Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina | May 28 – 30 2019)
Lange Woche der Nachhaltigkeit (Germany | May 25 – June 10 2019)
Human Rights Nights Film Festival (Bologna, Italy | May 24 – June 06 2019)
11th Cinema Planeta (Cuernavaca, Mexico | May 21 – 26 2019)
Globale Filmfestival (Leipzig, Germany | May 16 – November 8 2019)
Beldocs (Belgrade, Serbia | May 9 – 16 2019)
Pakhuis De Zwijger (Amsterdam, Netherlands | April 29 – 30 2019)
TRT Documentary Awards (Istanbul, Turkey | April 25 – 30 2019)
Festival of Science Documentary Films (Olomouc, Czech Republic | April 23 – 28 2019)
Europe on Screen (Jakarta, Indonesia | April 2019)
Earth Day (Slovakia | April 2019)
Point de M.I.R (Paris, France | April 13 – 14 2019)
San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival (San Sebastian, Spain | April 05 – 12 2019)
UNFIX-Festival (Glasgow, UK | March 29 – 31 2019)
Millenium Festival (Bruxelles, Belgium | March 22 – 30 2019)
Nebenrolle Natur Filmfestival (Zurich, Switzerland | March 14 – 17 2019)
Environmental Film Festival (Washington, USA | March 06 – 17 2019)
One World Prague (Prague, Czech Republic | March 06 – 17 2019)
Festival du Film Vert (Switzerland | March 01 – April 15 2019)
Green Image Film Festival (Tokyo, Japan | February 22 – 24 2019)
Movies That Matter – On Tour (Netherlands | February 04 – 20 2019)
Kino Soprus (Tallinn, Estonia | February 2019)
Göteborg Film Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden | January 25 – February 3 2019)
Tournai ramdam Festival (Tournai, Belgium | December 13 – 16, 2018)
SALT (Istanbul, Turkey | December 13 – 16, 2018)
K3 Film Festival (Villach, Austria | December 12 – 16, 2018)
FilmKulturTage (Switzerland | December 12, 2018)
9. Filmtage für Menschenrechte (Luzern, Switzerland | December 10 – 15, 2018)
Watch Docs Film Festival (Warszawa, Poland | December 7 – 13, 2018)
Climate Film Festival (Katowice, Poland | December 7 – 9, 2018)
This Human World (Vienna, Austria | November 29 – December 10, 2018)
19. Umweltfilmtage Klagenfurt (Klagenfurt, Austria | November 26 – 30, 2018)
19. Lüneburger Filmtage (Lüneburg, Germany | November 25 – 26, 2018)
Porto/Post/Doc – Film & Media Festival (Porto, Portugal | November 24 – December 2, 2018)
Planet in Focus (Toronto, Canada | November 21 – 24, 2018)
Anthropological Film Festival (Jerusalem, Israel | November 20 – 22, 2018)
Rokkumentti (Joensuu, Norway | November 8 – 18, 2018)
Camerimage (Bydgoszcz, Poland | November 10 – 17, 2018)
Films from the South Festival (Oslo, Norway | November 8 – 18, 2018)
Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel, Germany | November 13 – 18, 2018)
Trash Up! (Dortmund, Germany | November 10 – 11, 2018)
Festival Augenblick (Strasbourg, France | November 6 – 23, 2018)
Verzio (Budapest, Hungary | November 6 – 11, 2018)
International Film Festival (Leeds, England | November 1 – 15, 2018)
Afrikanisches Filmfestival (Hamburg, Germany | November 1 – 11, 2018)
Bosphorus Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey | October 26 – November 3, 2018)
Ji.hlava (Jihlava, Czech Republic | October 25 – 30, 2018)
4. Film Fest Aichach (Aichbach, Germany | October 22 – 27, 2018)
6th Duhok Film Festival (Duhok, Iraq | October 20 – 27, 2018)
33. Unabhängiges Filmfest Osnabrück (Osnabrück, Germany | October 17 – 21, 2018)
Environmental Film Festival (Melbourne, Australia | October 11 – 18, 2018)
Carbonia Film Festival (Carbonia, Italy | October 10 – 14, 2018)
Urban Film Festival (Seoul, South Korea | October 10 – 12, 2018)
Diritti Umani (Lugano, Switzerland | October 9 – 14, 2018)
Unsound Festival (Krakow, Poland | October 7 – 14, 2018)
14. Zurich Film Festival (Zurich, Switzerland | September 27 – October 7, 2018)
Reykjavik Film Festival (Reykjavik, Iceland | September 27 – October 7, 2018)
Saratov Sufferings Documentary Film Festival (Saratov, Russia | September 27 – 30, 2018)
Bergen Filmfestival (Bergen, Norway | September 26 – October 4, 2018)
Human Rights Film Festival Albania (Tirana, Albania | September 17 – 22, 2018)
DMZ (Goyang-si, South Korea | September 13 – 20, 2018)
Doku Fest (Prizren, Republic of Kosovo | August 3 – 11, 2018)
Eine Welt Filmtage (Düsseldorf, Germany | August 2 – September 6, 2018)
Homem (Melgaço, Portugal | July 30 – August 5, 2018)
Filmfest Munich (Munich, Germany | June 28 – July 7, 2018)
Valletta Film Festival (Valletta, Malta | June 8 – 17, 2018)
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark | March 15 – 25, 2018)
Partners