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LAND RUSH
Credits
Name: LAND RUSH
Country: Kamerun, Belgien
Year of publication: 2012
Format: digital
Color: color
Language : OF m. dt. UT
Duration: 58 Minuten
Direction: Lewat, Osvalde; Berkeley, Hugo
Abstract
LAND RUSH shows us how the current destruction of the environment in Mali has far-reaching consequences for its rural population. Disguised as a development project, a multinational company wants to buy up large parts of the fertile banks of the Niger River to start a sugar plantation for the global market. But the peasant farmers who live there are resisting, and they managed to halt the project, if only temporarily...
Director Osvalde Lewat from the Cameroon specialises in social and political topics and has already won countless awards for her films.