OCTOBER
18-21 2021
5:00 p.m.
TUESDAY - 19TH OCTOBER
CHILD SLAVERY
The Price of Free (2018)
ENGLISH | HINDU
Concordia Studio & Participant Media // USA
The Price of Free is an american documentary that follows the journey of Kailash Satyarthi, the indian activist and Nobel Award winner that quitted his job as an engineer to rescue children from slavery.
Satyarthi brings the boys to an ashram where they are given shelter, clothes, food… until they can return home with their families. The film focuses on the search of a boy named Sonu that has been missing for eight months.
The documentary won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2018.
“I have one single mission in my life, that every child should be free to be a child. Free to laugh and cry, free to go to school, free to touch the sky“- Kailash Satyarthi.
7:45 p.m.
The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010)
ENGLISH | GERMAN | FRENCH
Bastard Film & TV // DENMARK
In 2001, the Chocolate Manufacturers Association signed an agreement where child labor and trafficking was prohibited in the cocoa industry, but this was not being done by 2008 and a goal to finish with this situation by 2010 was set.
In this documentary, filmmakers Miki Mistrati and U. Robert Romano travel to Africa with their hidden cameras in order to explore some of the cocoa farms that supply the world’s biggest chocolate producers. There, they talk to children who reveal that they went there believing they would have good jobs and could help their families. The film also exposes the lack of worry about these issues African governments have.
