TOO MANY PEOPLE? TOO MUCH CONSUME? MOTHER EARTH AT ITS LIMIT

What happens when your future depends on telling your own life story? Four rejected asylum seekers relive the hearing on their reasons for fleeing their homelands thus shedding light on the core of the asylum procedure. Those who succeed in recounting the personal danger in their home country “credibly and without contradiction” have a better chance of receiving asylum. Will the interviewees be able to describe their memories of traumatic experiences in such a way that they meet the official criteria this time? A simple swapping of roles reverses the balance of power for once, with SEM interviewers answering the questions of the asylum seekers. In this way, THE HEARING not only provides insight into the crucial yet sensitive hearing, but also questions the asylum procedure itself. We are just under eight billion. Fifty years ago there were only half as many people. But the fact that we are too many is not only due to our numbers, but above all to the resource consumption of each individual. Before one of us in Europe, for example, wakes up, we have already consumed more commercial energy than a farming family of 28 in a country like Ethiopia or Nigeria. There are ways out of the cycle of overpopulation combined with poverty, through education for example. But those who break out of the cycle of poverty enter the cycle of consumption. Are there ways out of the cycle of consumption? That is what the film wants to find out. Is there a way out of the trilemma: "population growth, increasing energy consumption and ruin of ecosystems"?

Debate: How to break the trilemma: "population growth, increasing energy consumption and ruin of ecosystems"?
with Lourdes Picareta

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Germany, Italy, Ethiopia, Denmark, China 2024
72 Min. D/e
Regie:Lourdes Picareta