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SEEDS OF PROFIT

LES SEMENCES DE LA RÉVOLTE

By Linda BENDALI

JAVA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Environmental - Completed 2019

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.