CATAPA presents - from February 14th until March 15th - DocuLatino IV, a Latin American documentary festival. This edition puts forward the problems of the gold mining and oil industry.
While big transnational corporations make lots of profits, countries in the Souts are left with a huge social and ecological mess. Local ecosystems are devastated, rural communities lose their farmland, toxic products poison the drinking water for years. The consequences are desastrous, and often irreversible.
Onze samenleving zit vast. We hebben economische groei nodig om onze sociale zekerheid veilig te stellen. Maar dit is onduurzaam, we vragen nu al meer van de aarde dan ze kan dragen. En om het leefmilieu te beschermen, moeten we komaf maken met economische groei. Maar zo wordt ons sociaaleconomisch systeem onstabiel.
Operación Diablo (2010, 58’, Peru, Stéphanie Boyd)
20h30 / Spanish/ English subtitles
Crude (2010, 104’, Ecuador, Joe Berlinger)
20u30 / Spanish-English / English subtitels