Films for thinking people…...

Ceci n’est pas un complot

An interesting documentary made by a Belgian journalist, Bernard Crutzen on the current Covid situation. The very clear message helps to guide viewers through the maze of conflicting messages, propaganda, statistics and regulations bombarding the citizen today.
Currently available in French only.

External links: https://www.lavenir.net/cnt/dmf20210207_01552728/video-ceci-n-est-pas-un-complot-le-docu-qui-va-faire-un-ramdam

The latest film "La loi, la liberté" on the same theme - external link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOEacD0SFY

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the Chinese Community
Film made for New Zealand television in 1972 on the Chinese Community in New Zealand, its origins and its place in New Zealand society today.
External link: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/gallery-the-chinese-community-1972

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A Century of Smoke
Nicolas Graux 2018
A moving documentary of a community struggling for survival in the Laotian jungle. Watch the helplessness of the villagers in the face of the slow destruction of the community and their lives from the effects of opium farming.
External link: https://briff.be/en/programs/century-of-smoke/

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There is No Tomorrow
Dermot O'Connor 2012
An animated film dealing with resource depletion, energy, growth and collapse.
A stern warning about the consequences of pursuing a 21st century lifestyle in a world of finite resources.
External link: http://www.incubatepictures.com/notomorrow/tnt.shtml

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Un héritage empoisonné
Isabelle Masson-Loodts 2018
A disturbing film about how it is deliberate State policy (France and Belgium) to hide potentially harmful acts from the knowledge of the general public.
The large-scale and long-term pollution of the environment resulting from WW1 such as the pollution of agricultural soil in Flanders from the explosion of bombs etc. and today, the burying of nuclear waste, are two examples of the State deliberately perpetuating practices causing permanent damage to the population and the environment.
External link: https://www.cncd.be/Cine-debat-Un-heritage-empoisonne

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Internet ou la révolution du partage
La bataille du libre
Philippe Borrel 2018
This film discusses the ethics of the exclusive owning and selling of knowledge/objects (e.g. the owning of patents by big multinational companies) or preventing knowledge/objects from being readily available to everyone.
Examples are taken from all over the world to show that withholding knowledge/objects from the people stunts growth in society in all areas - health, education, internet, access to food etc. and retards progress in research and development.
External link: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_ou_la_r%C3%A9volution_du_partage

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The Biggest Little Farm
John Chester 2018
Going back to nature is not as easy as it looks. An experiment in farming the traditional way before the arrival of modern chemicals and practices. Follow the young couple fresh from the city as they slowly come to understand and struggle with the workings of nature, the rhythm of seasons and natural catastrophes.
External link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Little_Farm

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The Economics of Happiness
Helena Norberg-Hodge 2011
This documentary dwells on the social and economic cost resulting from today’s capitalistic, materialistic society. Measures should be encouraged on the local level to improve the well-being of the people and to combat the disastrous effects of modern society.
External link: https://www.flagey.be/fr/activity/6549-the-economics-of-happiness-en-marge-de-l-evenement-brussels-economic-forum-2019