Three women share a common goal: Carolina, Bertha and Maxima are leading today's fight against modern conquistadors. Whereas governments and corporations, trapped in a global race towards unlimited growth, need to get the cheapest raw materials, these three women tell us a story of tireless courage: how to keep fighting to protect nature when your life is at risk?
When police repression, corporate harassment, injuries or even death threats are part of your daily routine?
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Chapters
▷ 00:00 - Intro
▷ 01:38 - The Illusion of Abundance
▷ 57:29 - Credits
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"Colonialism is not over!", said the environmental defenders Berta Caceres a few months before being murdered at her home. Every year 200 defenders are being killed worldwide. Two out of three in Latin America alone.
German giant Tüv Süd is now being sued by victims' families from Brazil. Dutch development bank FMO is under legal attack by indigenous small farmers from Honduras. Newmont, the world’s biggest gold mining company, might be brought to Court in the US by a woman from Peru for a land dispute.
After 50 years, globalisation is getting nationalised as transnational corporations are being sued by citizens from the other side of the planet. But judges and politicians are not so keen to give a green light to these trials at home.
THE ILLUSION OF ABUNDANCE is not only a film about those who pay the high price of ‘development’, it is above all a film about the globalization of Carolina, Bertha and Maxima’s environmental resistance and their conviction to hunt down transnational corporations, wherever they hide.
The film's CO2 emissions have been offset and certified by the German NGO Klima Kollekte.
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Original Title - The Illusion of Abundance
A film by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez & Matthieu Lietaert
© 2022, Licensed by First Hand Films
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