SEEDS OF PROFIT

LES SEMENCES DE LA RÉVOLTE

By Linda BENDALI

JAVA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2019


Festivals
& Awards

Fredd Festival International du Film d'Environnement (France) 2020
Festival du Film vert (Switzerland) 2020
Ekotopfilm Envirofilm Festival (Slovakia) 2020
Hunger.Macht.profte festival (Austria) 2020
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Environmental, Social issues, Documentary
    • Countries
    • FRANCE, BELGIUM, INDIA, ISRAEL
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, FRENCH, KANNADA
    • Duration
    • 52 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Linda BENDALI
    • Writer(s)
    • Linda BENDALI
    • Producer(s)
    • Luc HERMANN (Premières Lignes Production), Paul MOREIRA (Premières Lignes Production)
    • Synopsis
    • Sixty years of producing standardized fruit and vegetables and creating industrial hybrids have had a dramatic impact on their nutritional content. In the past 50 years, vegetables have lost 27% of their vitamin C and nearly half of their iron.

      Take the tomato. Through multiple hybridizations, scientists are constantly producing redder, smoother, firmer fruit. But in the process, it has lost a quarter of its calcium and more than half of its vitamins. The seeds that produce the fruits and vegetables we consume are now the property of a handful of multinationals, like Bayer, and Dow-Dupont, who own them. These multinationals have their seeds produced predominantly in India, where workers are paid for just a handful of rupees while the company has a turnover of more than 2 billion euros. A globalized business where the seed sells for more than gold.

      According to FAO, worldwide, 75% of the cultivated varieties have disappeared in the past 100 years. Loss of nutrients, privatization of life, We reveal the industrialists’ great monopoly over our fruit and veg.