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To Celebrate World Food Day

To celebrate World Food Day on Tuesday 16 October 2007 The Soil Association, The Guild of Food Writers, and ICA Films present the first UK screenings of two documentaries from Austria on the theme of 'Where does our food come from?'.

Our Daily Bread by Nikolaus Geyrhalter and We Feed the World by Erwin Wagenhofer will be introduced by Craig Sams, chair of the Soil Association and founder of Green & Blacks, at the Institut Francais, London, 16 October from 6.30pm. Assisted by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

Our Daily Bread - 6.30pm
Austria | 2005 | col | 92 mins | doc | dir. Nikolaus Geyrhalter | cert.15
Between 2003 and 2005, director Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Elsewhere, 2001) travelled through Europe filming the industrial food chain that ends in our stomach. Featuring pigs, chickens, apples, sunflowers, cows and workers in sterile factories, Geyrhalter wants to show, as he says, “zones and areas people normally don't see” - including slaughterhouses. We slowly slip into another dimension where machines seem to move by themselves, human workers act like robots and pigs like people. There's no narration, no location names, no interviews - only the haunting beauty of the film's artistic photography. This is a pre-screening before being released by the ICA in 2008.
Watch the trailer at www.ourdailybread.at

We Feed the World - 8.45pm
Austria | 2005 | col | 96 mins | doc | dir. Erwin Wagenhofer | cert.15
From Austria to Africa, from France to Brazil, via Spain and Romania, we witness the absurdities of the global food industry. Why do food corporations increase food production while lowering food quality? Why are tons of European tomatoes sold cheaply in Africa so local farmers cannot sell their own? Fishermen and farm workers talk of taste sacrificed, farm animals treated inhumanely, children going hungry, all for the sake of profit. Also interviewed are the UN Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler, and Peter Brabeck, CEO of Nestle International, the largest food company in the world.You can watch the trailer at www.we-feed-the-world.at

How to book
Contact the Institut Francais 020 7073 1350 / box.office@ambafrance.org.uk
Single bill: £7, conc. £5
Double bill: £9 conc. £7
Discounts for members of the Soil Association and Guild of Food Writers

Institut Francais
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7
(near South Kensington tube)

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