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CHOCOLATE'S HEART OF DARKNESS

LA FACE CACHÉE DU CACAO

By Paul MOREIRA

JAVA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Documentary - Completed 2019

Ekotopfilm Envirofilm Festival 2020

Festival du Film vert (Switzerland) 2020

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary, Social issues
- Countries
- FRANCE, BELGIUM, IVORY COAST, SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Paul MOREIRA
- Writer(s)
- Fadila BELKACEM
- Producer(s)
- Luc HERMANN (Premières Lignes Production), Paul MOREIRA (Premières Lignes Production)
- Synopsis
- In 2001, the lucrative chocolate industry, due to pressure from NGOs, committed itself to putting an end to child labour in cacao plantations before 2006. 18 years later, has that promise been kept? The Ivory Coast, the world’s largest cacao producer, made a real effort to eradicate this scourge on the country. They built schools and trained farmers. Television adverts even reminded populations that child labour is illegal. So why does child exploitation still exist? Further into isolated areas of the forest, at the end of near-impassable roads, Paul Moreira discovered child slaves, forced to work in plantations, their incomes often seized by traffickers. These child slaves are separated from their parents and sometimes resold onto other traffickers.