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The documentary film “ERNTE TEILEN” tells the story of farmers who oppose the growth compulsion of our system and break out of the structures of conventional agriculture. Filmmaker and activist Philipp Petruch takes the film on a journey to three CSA initiatives in Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. They are united by a clear goal: with the help of communities, they create a local supply cycle according to the values of ecology and the common good. With courage, a sense of community and a new relationship between consumer and producer, we can change agriculture. And a little bit the world.
The film was screened on 16 October and followed by a talk about Community Supported Agriculture in the Zurich area. The event was taking place as part of the Days of Agroecology, co-organised by Ernärungsforum Zürich.
On 9 May, we screened of the documentary “La Veine Verte – The agroecology in West Africa”.
The Documenatry powerfully profiles the work of the Food System Caravane that conducted a 50-day road show and communication caravan tour across five West African countries, taking key messages from the food security research partnership projects to various institutions promoting knowledge exchange on the sustainability of food systems, including agroecology, agroforestry, organic agriculture and gender equality. After the film, we discussed with Fernando Sousa & Sara Baga, the producers of the movies. Thanks Claudia Zingerli for initiating it !
On November 9 and 23, the Greenhouse hosted the Geography Film Club. Two documentaries were screened and followed by a discussion with the directors: “Into the Weeds” by Jennifer Baichwal and “Seed Stories” by Chitrangada Choudhury and Aniket Aga.
The event was organized by Chitrangada Choudhury, Sara Blanco Ramirez and Xavier Balaguer Rasillo from the Department of Geography of University of Zürich.
On November 17, the screening of “Desert Phosfate” was followed by a discussion with the Film Director : Mohamed Sleiman.
The film weaves its way through the history of phosphate and explores the multi-layered narratives of sand particles, plants and human displacement. The film explores ways of telling about realities, metaphors and poetics in the desert. It sheds light on the connections between colonial practices, the traces of anthropocentric mineral extraction and the loss of indigenous ways of knowing and telling the world.
Sleiman Labat’s film consists of five chapters of different lengths and from different points of view, which do not follow a logical or chronological order, but instead connect and reconnect randomly at one point or another. This non-linear narrative style is the artist’s way of decolonizing his methods of storytelling. The contradictory nature of the chapters resembles the rhythm of the sandstorm: it builds up and collapses several times, then rages loudly again before falling into a dead calm, only to roar again. And that sets the tone for the whole movie.
The event was co-organised by Samira Amos and Agroecology Works!