(Canada)
A dusty afternoon on a South American field: The farmers pick vegetables, cut branches and complete other tasks. The very youngest children are tied to the backs of their mothers, and even those who are not old enough to help regard the daily wear and tear of curious eyes. From cradle to grave, these people work on food production and farming – at the same time they belong to one of the most distressed and starved populations in the world. Like theirs in several African countries and in India, they are forced to grow food for export – which binds them to a life of freedom and disease.
The bloody injustice
The Canadian-Swiss double production The Dispossessed og dispossession by Mathieu Roy illustrates the painful, cyclical reality in which hunger, debt and distress ravage. In an eerie way, the filmmaker evokes a feeling of isolation and suffocation when he shows us these workers who exert themselves to the breaking point or simply break down due to illness. Roy's anger over the decline of these communities as a result of modern farming practices. . .
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