Full tanks, empty plates
Director Monique Munting
Countries
Duration 57 min
Synopsis
Full tanks, empty plates - A documentary that combines politics and poetry To challenge the threat posed by global warming, the European Union wants to impose the use of crop-based fuels. The texts refer to "biofuels". "Bio" means "life". Is it appropriate to refer to these agro-fuels as "bio"fuels? "Full tanks, empty plates" questions not only an agricultural model, but also a development model and the existing pattern of North-South relationships. It presents the views of witnesses from the North and the South, intertwining political analysis and meditation, figures and music, testimonies and songs.
Full tanks, empty plates - A documentary that combines politics and poetry To challenge the threat posed by global warming, the European Union wants to impose the use of crop-based fuels. The texts refer to "biofuels". "Bio" means "life". Is it appropriate to refer to these agro-fuels as "bio"fuels? "Full tanks, empty plates" questions not only an agricultural model, but also a development model and the existing pattern of North-South relationships. It presents the views of witnesses from the North and the South, intertwining political analysis and meditation, figures and music, testimonies and songs.