Silent Snow
details
- Production
- 2011, Tanzania, Costa Rica, India
- Original language
- English
- Running time
- 01:11:00
- Genre
- documentary
- Topic
- environment, living matter
, research
- Directed by
- Jan Van den Berg
- Written by
- Jan Van den Berg, Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann
- Produced by
- drsFilm, AS Film, Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation
Film screened in French at the festival
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But dangerous pesticides are silently accumulating here, poisoning its inhabitants.
A young Inuit woman investigates the sources of this pollution. Her journey takes her to three different continents, Asia, South- America and Africa, where she is confronted with conflicting interests when it comes to short-term gains and healthy solutions for agriculture, industries and health care.
The recent developments in the Arctic are a disturbing preview of the consequences of structural pollution of the environmental system worldwide.
Selected at Pariscience 2011
See the showing : Sunday 09th October 2011 from 19h30 to 21h15