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DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS

SFFILM - as DISTR / PROD

Documentary - Completed 2007

Feature documentary on the global widespread of small arms and light weapons, which rules and ruins the lives of a growing number of people in developing countries.

- Year of production
- 2007
- Genres
- Documentary, Crime, Environmental
- Countries
- NETHERLANDS, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CONGO, CAMBODIA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, SWAHILI
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 90 mn
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-887E-0000-O-0000-0000-2
- Synopsis
- DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS is a political documentary on the uncontrolled widespread of small arms, which rule and ruin the lives of a growing number of people in developing countries.
  Through the eyes of different experts whose lives depend on small arms, the film shows the causes and impact of the trade — both legal, 'grey' and illegal — in small arms and its ammunitions, in particular in regions where the European Union and the United Nations are active, such as former Yugoslavia and Congo. Especially interesting for the western audience, the film shows how brokers —often under some 'organized' legal cover — buy weapons collected by the EU and NATO during their mission in Bosnia. These brokers transfer the weapons directly to African battlefields where they continue their killing lifespan unhindered.
  Shot on location in Cambodia, Eastern Congo, Uganda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, the United States and The Netherlands, DEALING AND WHEELING IN SMALL ARMS opens up our consciousness to a global reality rarely shown to the general public.