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OUR CHILDREN WE ACCUSE

Thursday, February 12, 2009
at 18:30

Screening Debate, Buffet bio!

In the presence of JEAN-PIERRE BERLAND, research director at INRA and
Ms. COSSON, head of the central kitchen Salon

In partnership with the Trump Bio AMAP, service and Childhood Education Cuisine Central City of Martigues, the Biocoop cicadas,
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Each year in Europe 100 000 children die diseases caused by environment. 70% of cancers are related to the environment of which 30% and 40% of pollution to food. Each year in France, there is an increase of 1.1% of cancers in children. In France, the incidence of cancer increased by 93% in 25 years in humans. In a small French village at the foot of the Cevennes, the mayor has decided to face and respond by passing the school canteen Bio. Here as elsewhere the population is faced with the anxieties cons agro chemical pollution. Here begins a battle against a logic that could become irreversible, a fight for that tomorrow our children do not accuse us.



is the first time, perhaps since The Silent World of Jacques Cousteau (Golden Palm at Cannes 1956), that French cinema is interested in a topic on the environment. If the preservation of the marine world was already a valuable cause, that of feeding our children is much more. If not urgent. After going through the French countryside with its sensory series "Four Seasons for ...", John Paul Jaud fixed the lens of his camera on an environmental tragedy: the poisoning campaigns Denos agricultural chemistry and damage caused public health, particularly that of our children.

The film "Our children will accuse us" tells the courageous initiative of a municipality in Gard, Barjac, who decides to spend the school canteen bio, by funding the additional cost on the budget of the municipality. Aware of the health hazard that threatens a new generation exposed to 76 000 tonnes of pesticides dumped on our country every year, the mayor decides to take the bull by the horns, giving an example of a policy without comparison. Alert the public and government on the outrageous excesses of an economic system that puts profits and his interests above the health of the population.



The various stakeholders in the film, children, parents, teachers, nurses, journalists, farmers, politicians, scientists, researchers, reveal their feelings, their analysis, their engoisses, their anger, the fruit of their work the camera. Each tells her experience, denounced the abuse, pose problems, but all offer solutions, provided that the various governing bodies take their responsibilities. Inspirational and deeply moving testimony to a reality that it is urgent to control. How many diseases, tumors, infirmities, tragedies Are human spirit to flourish without it do nothing, or very little?

The film begins at Unesco, at a conference bringing together world leaders in medicine, the signatories of the Paris Appeal. One word: Not just to see the devastation, but immediately find ways to act, so that tomorrow our children will accuse us of not having dropped.

film at the service of a truth that hurts.

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Faced with the explosion of the organic market, how producers can they meet demand? Survey of farmers and specialists.

The organic trade is currently experiencing phenomenal growth in Europe: the number of organic supermarkets continues to grow and even discount stores are getting into. The rising demand pushes farmers to produce more, but at what price?
The animals seem to suffer from this new deal: Victims of cows and udder inflammation, which can not be given that very few antibiotics, Chicken adopting neurotic behavior because the species is more accustomed to life in a compound outside ... Studies show that these examples are not isolated cases. In addition, the hygienic conditions ideal for breeding are expensive and require more work to already overburdened farmers. For producers of fruits and vegetables also bio implies very strict constraints and it is now clear that this mode of operation is no longer based simply on ancestral knowledge and traditional: the procedures developed by the research is accurate , and frequent monitoring.
The explosion in demand and the law market bring new demands for performance and efficiency. Thus, the compliance criteria have been relaxed somewhat, the risk that the bio does more fully: for example, the addition of food supplements such as soybean, possibly derived from GMOs, is now approved by European standards .
Throughout the film, Peter Podjavorsek raises real questions: Is organic really healthier? What better taste? Is it really organic? can we produce bio for all? The answers are sometimes surprising ...

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STORE WARS
Parody of Star Wars to promote organic farming cons intensive agriculture. In the original version subtitled in French.

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a time when politicians are fighting to control energy costs, a 2001 study by Italian researchers and U.S. compiled by Pierantonio Cinzano University Padova found that two-thirds of the world's population and 99% of the population United States suffer light pollution at night. Worse, more than two-thirds of Americans and half of European citizens can no longer discern the Milky Way with the naked eye, even on clear nights and "black". The phrase "have a clear and dark sky" (Have a clear night and black) will soon become meaningless.
As shown in the picture of the Earth presented below, all industrialized countries are affected by this phenomenon, including campaigns for some countries are seeing an influx of tens of thousands of tourists and must build Quick access roads on their territory.

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ENVIRONMENT & CINEMA

Blockbusters, documentation and animated films exploit the vein of environmental threats. Effective to awaken consciences?

year 2008 without doubt one where they are most heard about the environmental crisis. with "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "The Crimson Wing", "Mia and Migoo", "Wall-E" or "phenomena", the movie operates like an echo, a return to nature. But what effect fear having this current "green" consciousness on the citizens? In

" The Day the Earth Stood " a cataclysm comes paranormal befall our civilization punitive expedition led by an alien, aka Keanu Reeves. This blockbuster pure juice is a remake of a film made in 1955 by Robert Wise.

In the original version, in the Cold War, we risked a nuclear Apocalypse. In the 2008 version, the threat is environmental scenario all the more effective it is certified and announced by scientists in newspapers.
"By happen before our eyes the ecological disaster, these films anchor it in the collective imagination, which no political discourse has been able to do it again," says Ollivier Pourriol philosopher who leads the sessions of film-philosophy the MK2.

A "disaster movie where the victims and the perpetrators are in the room"

Blockbusters and documentaries activists, same fight? With
"An Inconvenient Truth " , Al Gore was the first in 2006 to exploit the drama springs from disaster movies with shocking images and soundtrack to the end world. Yann Arthus-Bertrand also considers the documentary as "the first disaster movie where the victims and the perpetrators are in the room," resumed sentence highlighted in the French version.



Other major productions are born militant in its wake. " Home " , Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson, released in June 2009 on all media, web, DVD, small and big screen and around the world. The producer hopes to reach 50 to 100 million viewers. Erik Orsenna, who helped write the script, approved by the pedagogy image: "From well as questions posed by the exhaustion of nature, we need multiple answers, just multiply the points of view. The book should be completed by the film, which moves more while the book forces them to think more calmly, forcing the nuances better prepares to action. " The image we know to take, but we felt loose on stage. Fear of a collapsing glacier, before a bear tenderly drifting, guilty in the alignment of numbers, we suffer, spectators, the catastrophe.
It also suggests that Ollivier Pourriol: " The spectacle of the disaster has more immediate impact than any political speech, but it can also lead to impotence. That's why activists in these movies, it always reminds the citizen's power in the accompanying message a little music reassuring. "

Similarly Eco extravaganza, the wildlife documentary is renewed on the big screen and has very little to do with raw footage filmed from a savanna 4x4 that looked on Wednesday afternoon. ( "Microcosmos " , " The March of the Penguins " , "Animals love " , "One day on Earth " )

But the documentary does is not to be outdone, who regularly delivers biting midges on the ecological crisis and overconsumption. The directors and denounce
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- The excesses of big food industry
( "We Feed The World " , "Our Daily Bread " , "Fast Food Nation " or "Super Size Me ")

- The overexploitation of natural resources (" A World Without Water ", " the Fever Gold ") intensive agriculture in " Our children will accuse us "

- The scandal of waste in Naples "Biutiful Cauntry " .

lack of funding and distributors, these films are struggling to break into the French screens. "The 11th Hour " , Di Caprio's documentary widely publicized, has not found a distributor in France.

The pattern also works through environmental fiction, tales ecological ( "Mia and Migoo" ) initiation quests ( "Into the Wild" ) or thwarted love ( Lady Chatterley ").

And Nature sometimes finds its fascination disturbing as in "Tropical Malady" Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's or, more recently, in "There Will Be Blood" , Paul Thomas Anderson, Black saga about the early era oil.

The devastated environment serves as a backdrop for the animated films. This is the case in "Wall-E" . Andrew Stanton, director, denies any activism: "They say that my film seeks to raise awareness but there is no message. I use the environment to tell this story of love is all, "he said at the time of discharge.

In" Ice Age ", whose third episode released In June 2009, the deterioration of climate and species survival are the pretext for a series of gags. This is not to save nature, but to save his skin.


End Drive. It will be hard to conclude in 2008, ignoring that our lifestyle is destroying the planet. But alongside works of activists, the return to nature through the films allows us experienced, no clear message, the power of fascination and threat it still exerts on us.


Biutiful Cauntri (Preview)

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